The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday declared the senatorial election in Imo North inconclusive.
This came two days after the INEC office in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area in the senatorial district was set ablaze by persons suspected to be political thugs.
Allegations of snatching of ballot boxes, kidnapping of electoral officers and manipulation of the process had trailed the process.
An INEC official who did not want his name in print told our correspondent that glaring cases of malpractices made the electoral umpire to declare the exercise inconclusive.
He said that fresh election shall be held in three out of the six LGAs that make up the senatorial district.
The INEC official listed the affected LGAs as Isiala Mbano, Ihitte Uboma and Obowo.
According to him, election shall also be conducted in six poling units in Okigwe and Onuimo LGAs.
When contacted, the INEC Public Relations Officer in the state, Emmanuella Opara, confirmed the development.
The INEC spokesperson who said that a new date had not been fixed for a fresh election, also told reporters that the election in Okigwe North federal constituency was also declared inconclusive.
He was unable to confirm if the election in Okigwe North federal constituency whose results had yet to be announced three days after election was conducted, was also declared inconclusive.
The senator representing the zone, Benjamin Uwajumogu, who was the All Progressives Congress candidate in the election, had called for its cancellation.
The lawmaker had alleged that malpractices and rigging marred the election.
