Emeka Ike protests at INEC office after losing House of Reps ticket

Nollywood veteran actir, Emeka Ike has protested the outcome of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primary election for the AMAC/Bwari Federal Constituency seat, alleging irregularities and vote rigging

The actor, who contested for the House of Representatives ticket but lost, led supporters to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Abuja, to protest what he described as a compromised electoral process.

Videos from the scene showed an agitated Emeka Ike confronting officials and demanding accountability over the conduct of the primary.

He said; “You are forced to do the right thing and you are now trying to come and do election behind us. We don’t have an address. We don’t have an address while the election is going on. I’m an Aspirant and I’m a Nigerian. And I’m saying to INEC, you will not go through with this. I don’t do social media activism. INEC will not escape this. You’re hiding to do election because you want to betray Nigerians. We have come for you.

Speaking to journalists, the actor claimed that several aspirants were denied a fair chance to participate because they were given incorrect information about where voting would take place.

“There was so much serious chaos in all the wards, and we are not happy that some of us did not get the information of where the elections will be carried out. We mobilised our followers and expected proper accreditation, but instead people without party cards were allowed to vote. Some even came with voters’ cards, and we have videos of money being shared,” he alleged.

He continued; “First of all, a couple of us aspirants were disenfranchised because where we were told the election would hold was not eventually where it held. We were told that we’re supposed to go to, first it was women’s center, then they said we should go to our local government council area in Trinity. And then at the end of the day, nothing was happening around there.

“We are now told, we got information from our intel, that plenty of the wards have been activated while some of us were at the local government center. And then the election was going on in the ward, so we now have to start mobilizing our followers to run to the ward. And some of them, before they got to the ward, election was concluded.

“We went to the council area they asked us to go for election. We went to the INEC office in Area 10. We didn’t see people voting. Then when we got to the car park, we saw some party officials with a few people in a corner doing the same electoral process, and we confronted them.

“They quickly got into the car and started running off. We blocked the gates with our cars. They saw they couldn’t escape. We didn’t know they can escape from the back of that INEC office,” he alleged.

Actor Emeka Ike is not about how the NDC primaries went down yesterday, laments seriously pic.twitter.com/GQoFDBkm4w

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