The Osun governorship election was not the first to be declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).
There had been several others before it, including governorship elections, contrary to insinuations in some quarters that what INEC’s returning officer, Professor Joseph Fuwape, Vice chancellor Federal University of Technology, Akure, did was unprecedented.
Anambra 2011
The late Dora Akunyili, contesting for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat in 2011, on the platform of APGA, was in the lead with 66,273 votes. Her opponent, Chris Ngige, of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was trailing with 65,576 votes, when the election was declared inconclusive.
According to the returning officer, Charles Esimole, voting had been cancelled in several wards of the senatorial district, and the number of registered voters in those wards was…
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