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AnambraDecides: Let Every Vote Counts, Situation Room Tasks INEC

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6 months ago

November 8, 2025

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As the Anambra State governorship election enters the results collation stage, the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure every vote counts.

The Situation Room, in an Interim Statement on the election made available to newsmen in Akwa on Saturday, urged INEC to effectively manage the vote tabulation and result collation processes.

The CSO, while vowing to “follow up the process till conclusion of the election and declaration of results,” adjudged the election as relatively peaceful but with some shortcomings.

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The Situation Room expressed concern that some polling units (PUs 015, 012, 013, 004 and 003) located within the RAC centre at Umuike Public Square, Ward 9, Awka South LGA, that do not require transportation failed to setup and did not commence voting until after 9:00am.

The Situation Room, while stating that there was slow turnout of voters in several Polling Units (PUs), voting trading was the order of the day.

According to the Situation Room, though the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was reported to have performed efficiently with a one-minute average turnaround time for accreditation of a voter in majority of the polling units, and poll officials displaying a somewhat good knowledge of the voting process, voting was delayed till 10:30am in PU 015 All Hallow Seminary School in Ward 9 of Onitsha North LGA due to malfunctioning of the deployed BVAS.

Situation Room said there was “no reports of any major violent incidents in this election except in PUs 001, 002 and 003 in Ward 2 of Anaocha LGA where some thugs dressed in INEC vest disrupted the voting process and denied supporters of some political parties’ access to the polling unit in favour of another party. This was immediately escalated to the Nigeria Police.”

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