Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by unnamed persons to rig him out of the National Assembly election rescheduled to take place on Saturday, February 23.

A statement on Monday evening by Mr. Ekweremadu's Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, alleged that INEC result sheets for the district during the botched Presidential and National Assembly elections were missing.

But the spokesperson for INEC in the state, Pius Eze, said everything is in order and that there is no cause for alarm.

The Deputy Senate President made the allegation at a town hall meetings organised in the five local government areas in his district. He said he had brought the matter to t...