Nigeria, April 19 -- Donatus Ohajianya, the returning officer in the Imo North Senatorial District supplementary polls, breached the procedures for receiving and collating results, an administrative committee of inquiry set up by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has found.

The committee, which indicted Mr Ohajianya and one other electoral official, subsequently recommended that the duo should be blacklisted and barred from participating in any future electoral activity, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report.

Due to widespread irregularities and violence, the February 23 National Assembly elections in the senatorial district was declared inconclusive and a rerun in five of the six local government areas in the dist...