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Irregularities force partial re-run in Rivers State

Gubernatorial elections will take place again in several areas of southeast Rivers State on 16 January due to irregularities reported from Saturday’s polling, news agencies said today. The Nigerian daily ‘The Guardian’ said that INEC declared the gubernatorial elections in Rivers to be “inconclusive” because voting had not been conducted in some areas while polling results in other areas had not been submitted properly. “Something funny has taken place,” ‘The Guardian’ quoted resident electoral commissioner Alhaji Mala Alamai as saying yesterday in the state capital, Port Harcourt. Poll re-runs will be held in 38 wards, the newspaper added.

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