The Labour Party governorship candidate for Imo, Athan Achonu, and scores of his supporters on Thursday stormed the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja to demand the true certified copy of the just concluded poll in the state.
Achonu, who was accompanied by the National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu, also accused the electoral umpire of playing a double standard in the November 11 off-cycle election.
The placard-carrying protesters therefore demanded that the electoral umpire release the Certified True Copies (CTCs) of all election documents.
Some of the visibly agitated Labour Party supporters had placards with inscriptions such as ‘Hear the people’s voice’, and ‘Give out the CTC for Imo State’, amongst others.
The protest came two weeks after INEC declared Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress winner of the election.
The APC candidate polled 540,308 votes to defeat Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 71,503 votes and Achonu who could only secure 64,081 votes.
The results have since been rejected by the Labour Party and the PDP. Both parties alleged that the exercise was marred by electoral malpractices, voter intimidation, and other alleged irregularities.
