The Returning Officer in the ongoing governorship election for Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra, Micheal Otu, said the election did not hold in the local government he presided over because he was locked up in the toilet and forced to sign election papers.

“I was made to sign the election papers under duress,” Mr. Otu narrated during the collation of results at Akwa on Sunday.

“I almost collapsed. I was locked in a toilet. As far as I’m concerned, there was no election in Orumba North.”

Mr. Otu’s statement comes amidst reports that the governorship election held on Saturday was peaceful, free, and fair throughout the state.

Orumba North has 93,608 registered voters.

INEC has taken a break from the ongoing collation of results to examine if the election took place at Orumba North Local Government Area, or not.

From the results of 16 local government areas collated so far Charles Soludo of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won 15, while Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won Ogbaru LGA.

In another development, the returning officer of the Idemili South Local Government Area; Gabriel Othong, says that 41 result sheets of the 42 result sheets for 89 polling units were carted away by the Supervising Polling Officer (SPO) posted to the area.

He revealed this while submitting results for the area.

According to him, there was no election in Oba Ward 1, Oba Ward 11, and Akukwu Ward all in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra.

“One of the SPOs carted 41 out of the 42 result sheets meant for the 89 polling units in the affected wards.

“Over 40, 000 voters were not able to vote in the affected areas due to the development,” he stated.

In conclusion, the result for the top three parties released for Idemili South was APC – 1,036, APGA – 2,312, and PDP – 2,016.

Idemili South Local Government Area has a total of 112, 652 out of which only 6, 622 voters were accredited.