The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it has election results from 17 out of the 23 local government areas, LGA, of Rivers State where the governorship election held in the state.
The director of information and voter education committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday.
He said the commission would issue detailed timelines and activities for the completion of the election on Wednesday.
Recall that on March 10, INEC suspended all electoral processes in Rivers following the wide spread violence and disruption that attended the exercise.
According to Okoye, a decision on the election was taken at a meeting where the commission considered the report of the fact-finding committee set up to look into the situation in Rivers where electoral process was suspended.
The statement said: “The governorship and state assembly elections took place in most polling units and results were announced.
“That the results from 17 local governments out of 23 are available and are in the commission’s custody.
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“That the declaration and returns for 21 state constituencies out of 32 were made prior to the suspension.
“That collation centres were invaded by some soldiers and armed gangs resulting in the intimidation and unlawful arrest of election officials thereby disrupting the collation process.”
The INEC Commissioner said the electoral umpire was committed to expeditious completion of the collation process where results of the elections had been announced.
He assured that INEC will engage the security agencies at national level and the inter-agency consultative committee at the state level to demand neutrality and professionalism of security personnel in order to secure a peaceful environment for the completion of the elections.
