Mr Okorocha was ahead in the main elections held last week Tuesday, and his party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), insisted he be declared the winner pending the outcome of elections in the four local government areas.
Ahead of the polls, the APGA said it would only participate in the rescheduled polls on the condition that state indigenes, which it accused of colluding with the state governor, were removed from polling and collation duties.
“Ordinarily, we would have rejected the elections because our candidate met the requirements to have been elected a winner, but for the fact that INEC has ordered reelection. Whether it is legal or illegal, we have decided to participate but that will be on those conditions,” the party chairman Victor Umeh said in Abuja on Tuesday.
In a measure to soothe the opposition, INEC said all the electoral officers and collation officers in the state have been redeployed. Officials from other states will handle the election duties on Friday.
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