The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has announced the cancellation of rerun elections of National and state Houses of Assembly in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the Rivers state.
The LGAs are, Khana, Gokana, Andoni, Bonny, Tai and Eleme.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Aniedi Ikoiwak who announced the cancellation at a briefing on Saturday afternoon at the state INEC office in Port Harcourt said the decision followed attacks of INEC officials at the areas by political party members who alleged that the electoral materials sent to them were fake.
“I am not aware of any fake materials sent to any LGA in this elections, all the electoral materials for the elections were distributed in the presence of political party representatives, everything sent out from here were genuine materials,” he said.
The Electoral Commissioner who stated that new date for the election in the six LGAs would be announced later, noted that INEC was studying the situation in other council areas in the state, which has 23 councils.
