The national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has waded into the stalemate surrounding the Saturday’s governorship election in Enugu.

The state collation officer, Prof Maduebibisi Iwe, who disclosed this at the reconvening at the collation centre in Enugu, said the reason for the involvement of the national headquarters bordered on the petition of over-voting in Nkanu East LGA by the Labour Party agent.

He said: “We suspended the exercise last night till this morning to enable us look into objections made by some political parties.

“We got a few of the complaints, eventually we have one petition, two observations and one complaint by someone who is in Action People’s Party about election in Nsukka.

“Also, someone from another party, APN said that the election in Nkanu East went well. The PDP requested that the election goes on

“The LP in their petition is saying that in Nkanu East LGA there was non-usage of BVAS and over-voting. They attached printouts showing discrepancies in the number of accredited voters and the total number of votes.

“However, we are not working alone. We have reached out to the headquarters which has asked us to give them some time within which to resolve the matter in an hour or so time and get back to us”.

He lamented a lot of negative and spurious allegations were being reported over the results of the election in Enugu State.

“Some of the things I’m hearing on TV this morning is very strange to me. That was not what I presided over till 11pm last night.

“There’s no need for some people to create tension here in Enugu State. Some people wrote that we went back to change the results overnight.

“Nobody should be talking about changing the results because all the results are there.

“I will plead that we respect our national office and give them some time to tell us what to do.

“As for me, I’m well aware of my responsibility as the collation officer here. I’m ready to proceed but let’s listen to the commission. I’m prepared to end this whole process in the next five to fifty minutes,” Iwe said.

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