Guardian / Nigeria: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the result of Imo North Senatorial District rerun election inconclusive.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the poll was conducted on Saturday (July 23).
Also declared inconclusive were the results of Oru East and Isiala Mbano State Constituencies following reported cases of shot out which characterised the exercise in some communities in the two affected areas.
Agbogu also announced that PDP’s Athan Achonu scored 40,142 votes to emerge second in the already declared result.
He explained that results of several polling units in Isiala Mbano area were characterised by irregularities leading to cancellation of the results.
Agbogu explained that the exercise was cancelled in 15 polling units with a total of 13,000 registered voters.
According to him, the difference between the candidate with the highest score and the second stood at 8,777 votes.