ANPP Urges Votes Count At Polling Stations

The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Benue wants the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that votes are counted at polling centres during the 2011 general elections.

  Mr Nathaniel Haanya, the party’s Deputy Chairman, made the call on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen in Makurdi. 

Haanya said the suggested measure would eliminate changing of results recorded at polling centres and collation points.

“The biggest challenge in the 2011 general elections is for INEC to ensure free, fair and credible elections”.

“The ANPP has been winning elections in the state and the country at large and we will still win once this is done”.

“Once there is no harassment by the law enforcement agencies, no violence and intimidation by political thugs, a free and fair election is guaranteed,” he said.

The deputy chairman also said the party was warming up for the by-election in Tarka Constituency for the state House of Assembly on June 26.

The by-election results from the death of the former lawmaker, Mr Baber Dzeremo, who died on May 22.

On the just-concluded ward delegates congresses, Haanya said the elections were concluded without hitches in all the 23 local government areas of the state.

He said the party’s secretariat had so far not received any report of anomaly in the process, and announced that the local council congresses would hold on July 3.