Nigerians saw this unmitigated infamy, as did international observers and media organisations

Peter Mbah (Peoples Democratic Party): 143,938 votes. This meant that the Labour candidate had scored the highest number of votes of all the contestants, leading his PDP counterpart with 11,759 votes. Nkanu East is the home of Mr. Mbah. Strangely, INEC announced that Mbah had won Nkanu East by 30,560 votes to Mr. Edeoga’s 1,855 votes. When it got pointed out to INEC that their figures showed over-voting by a staggering 24,962 ballots, it announced the suspension of votes collation – to review things. After its review, INEC posted new figures thus: Mbah: 16,956 votes. Edeoga: 1,855 votes. This meant that in this constituency of 7,453 accredited voters, just two of the candidates garnered 18,811 votes. When