SDP challenges Imo LG election results, demands cancellation

The Imo State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal sitting successful Owerri has adjourned to November 4, 2024, the lawsuit filed by Social Democratic Party, SDP, against the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission, ISIEC, and All Progressives Congress, APC, implicit the result of the conscionable concluded section assembly elections successful the state.

The lawsuit with suit fig EPI/IMLG/0/9/24, was filed by the authorities president of the party, Henry Ifeanyi Eluwa, challenging the process that produced the chairmen of section authorities councils crossed the state.

In their prayers, the SDP sought for full cancellation of the predetermination results, citing alleged electoral irregularities and malpractices that it claimed marred the polls.

Eluwa further alleged that ISIEC successful connivance with the ruling APC successful the authorities failed to comply with the electoral guidelines.

However, astatine the archetypal proceeding of the substance which took spot connected October 17, 2024, the APC and its candidates were not contiguous successful court, forcing the tribunal to adjourne the substance to November 4, 2024.

The large LGAs listed successful the petition see Ezinihitte, Owerri Municipal, Obowo, Ngor-Okpala among others.

The SDP besides demanded that the ISIEC chairman, Charles Ejiogu, should explicate to the electorate however results were capable to emanate from section authorities areas wherever the Commission said elections volition not clasp arsenic a effect of insecurity.

The SDP president reiterated that the enactment volition not relent successful its committedness to bully governance, societal justness and electoral reform.

He further pointed retired that the authorities electoral committee disregarded the electoral guidelines it issued to governmental parties and the wide nationalist for the behaviour of the election.