No less than 1,000 cops will provide additional security in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State where voters will wrap up a governorship election today.
This is according to state police commissioner Echeng Echeng.
“We are deploying more than a thousand to the polling booths,” Echeng told Channels TV on Monday night.
“This makes an average of three, four. They are going to be complemented by other security agencies.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the governorship election ‘inconclusive’ after saying that technical glitches, logistics, and uncertainties over security did not allow Ihiala residents to exercise their franchise.
Returning officer Florence Obi said the election did not hold in Ihiala LGA and would be difficult to announce the winner due to insufficient margin of victory for the leading candidate Charles Soludo of APGA.
Soludo’s APGA has maintained a comfortable lead over his main challengers in APC and PDP, but Ihiala has more registered voters than the margin between APGA and its runner-up PDP.
Elections were held in 20 of the state’s 21 local government areas on Saturday.
Today’s supplementary election would hold between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
