INEC declares Ebonyi Assembly elections inconclusive

The declaration was made on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Lawrence Azubuike.

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the State House of Assembly elections in five out of the 24 Ebonyi State constituencies inconclusive.

The declaration was made on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Lawrence Azubuike.

We do not have the power to cancel Rivers and Akwa Ibom results - INEC

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission has come out to state that it has no constitutional power to cancel any results it has announced. While addressing calls by some parties for the cancellation of governorship and state house Assembly election results in some state, particularly in Rivers and AkwaIbom, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, told Punch that the commission is not empowered by law to cancel any result it has announced, that cancellation of results is only done at election tribunals.