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How gallant youths rescued Imo PDP ward congress results

 



What would have amounted to monumental electoral fraud was averted in Owerri on Saturday as courageous but angry Imo People's Democratic Party, PDP, youths pressurized members of the electoral panel to produce result sheets after the panel members allegedly stated that they did not come with result sheets and that the sheets were left in the office of the National Secretary of the Party in Abuja.


Following the action by the youths, 25 out of 27 result sheets for the controversial Ward congress of the Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, conducted on Saturday, appeared immediately.


This was confirmed by the  Director-General of the Imo PDP New Media, Collins Opurozor.


He said one of the panel members confessed that the results were hidden somewhere in the car and it was brought out without delay.



According to sources in Owerri, the panel members led by the Chairman, Mr Udensi, were held hostage at the party Secretariat located along Okigwe Road in Owerri by the angry youths.



The reason the youths gave was that the panel told them that they did not come with the result sheets and that they allegedly handed them over to the office of the National Secretary of the PDP in Abuja 


The angry youths stated that they suspected foul play and that  the panel could go to Abuja, and enter a different result from what actually happened at the wards.


According to reports, trouble started when the ward congresses were concluded and the party members arrived at the state secretariat to meet with the panel to start entering the result and when the panel were asked to bring out the result sheets they said they left it in Abuja with the office of the National Secretary.





One of the angry youths, who spoke anonymously with our correspondent said:“We had to block the gate insisting  that nobody will  go out until the result sheets were provided.”




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