The March 18 2023 guber election in Enugu State took three days to be declared due to alleged non-use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and over voting in Nkanu East LGA. The state returning officer, Prof Maduebibisi Iwe, VC, University of Agriculture, Umudike, and also head of Scripture Union, Nigeria, was about to announce the results when Labour Party’s agent for the LGA, Eugene Edeoga, Ph.D, said the accreditation and voting were manually done.
Iwe henceforth suspended the exercise, and referred the matter to INEC headquarters in Abuja, where the results were reviewed and reduced from 30, 350 to 16, 956, implying indeed that the result would have been declared if it were not timely observed.
