INEC cancels results from 1 ward, 3 units in Jos North

Results of Tudun Wada/Kabong ward in Jos north local government area and three other units in Naraguta B ward in the same LG has been cancelled.

Before the cancellations, results from Tudun Wada/Kabong had been declared as PDP polling 30,902 while the APC polled 3,915.

The collation officer for Jos North, Dr. Augustine Azi however said the returning officer at the ward level could not provide the original copies of the result sheets and when asked how he came about the summary of the results, Azi said the returning officer had told them that presiding officers at the unit level had read the results to him orally.

He explained that the returning officer for Tudun Wada/Kabong ward had been arrested with a man who claimed to be the APC agent when the APC chairman for Jos North denounced him.

The collation officer also announced that unit 005 in Naraguta B of Jos North had been cancelled because of the mutilation of the polling unit result sheets and excessive use of correction fluid which made the results unreadable.

Azi also explained that, “unit 009 was cancelled due to the non use of the smart card reader while unit 087 was cancelled because the presiding officer had absconded with the result sheets.”

He said the presiding officer for unit 009 had told them that though the smart card reader was functional, he had been under pressure by the community to vote manually.

The final results for Jos North were declared as APC polling 93,800 against the PDP’s 53,277.