 The People's Democratic Party in Emo State is called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the Ngor Opala House of Assembly by-election that was held on Saturday, alleging massive rigging and intimidation by the all-progressive Congress APC. Speaking during a press conference at the party headquarters in Oweri, the state capital, the state chairman of the PDP, Charles Ogu, accused Governor Hope Uso-Dima of mobilizing truckloads of security agencies to invade Ngor Opala, LGA, and unleashed mayhem on the electorate. The PDP said in over 50 out of 193 polling units, electoral materials were forcefully carted with INEC ad hoc staff taken to Centera Hotel along the Samumbakwe Airport Road to thumbprint ballot papers and write resolves in favor of the APC. Herefor, call on INEC, first, number one, to outrightly cancel the Saturday, February 26, 2022 by-election in Ngor Opala, as any outcome from such barbaric invasion and warfare will only reflect the manipulations of Hope Uso-Dima and his band of electoral fraudsters and not the will of Ngor Opala people. Two, we call on INEC to order an immediate recount of all the materials and votes and reconcile them with the beaver's data. We further call on INEC to direct its HOD operations, Fidelis Uguro, to ensure the security and safety of all the materials and data deployed in the Ngor Opala by-election to ensure a thorough recount as any story of loss of material or destruction of materials will prove ongoing suspicions of compromise by the Commission. That is very funny. If any PDP person or group of persons from PDP will make that kind of statement. If you see the reflection of the results, you can see that the gap is not much. We led them with about 2,000 votes. In that aggregate, it's just about 2,000 and a fraction. Such a keenly contested election and with such results, we tell you that it was a business as usual. So this hue and cry of intimidation, violence, snatching off valor bosses and the rest of them, it doesn't leave them anywhere. For me, I describe it as a lullaby of somebody or people who have lost an election.