Election results: 8 million South East voters disenfranchised ― Peter Obi

Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of disenfranchising eight million registered voters in the South East geopolitical zone in the last general election.

Obi, who disclosed this in a press conference at his  Onitsha residence Anambra State, lamented that the general election was systematically planned to ensure that the zone does not participate fully in the electoral process contending that our of ten million registered voters in the area only twenty per cent were able to cast their votes.

“You will recall that on the election day I said that the process was clumsy and we also had a major problem of card readers and most people could not vote.

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” When over four hundred thousand Card Readers got burnt it became clear that something was wrong somewhere and the Independent National Electoral Commission could not save the situation and they will not allow people to vote manually.

“But in some other parts of the country people are allowed to vote manually and it was accepted by the electoral body. Now how can you tell me that a state like Yobe and Boronu produced the number of voters that is higher than Anambra and Ebony states put together.

“The two states are areas that have been at war and I wonder how they got Card Readers that are working so well despite the war situation that they found themselves.

Obi noted that instead of the country building on achievements of the 2015 general election the country is on a reverse adding that the impressive turn out of voters was discouraged by the performance of the electoral body last Saturday.

Obi also recalled that since the election period members of the People’s Democratic Party PDP are being harassed and attacked by the authorities in a bid to intimidate them into submission.

Obi, however, noted that it is not up to him to announce any demand for the cancellation of the election adding that is left for the party to make it’s position clear on the matter.