Tearing and abrupt destruction of result sheets by party agents have forced Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to suspend collation of results at the collation centre in Owerri.
Trouble started when a PDP agent, Uche Onyeaguocha said that the result of Ideato South LGA should not be announced.
He alleged that supporters of Governor Rochas Okorocha had chased away party agents and wrote the result for their preferred candidate.
But other party agents insisted that the result should be announced, citing a similar occurrence at Mbaise LGA.
The state returning officer, Prof Francis Otunta, after consultation asked that the result in contention be announced.
But the PDP agents rushed to the table, seized and tore the result sheet.
Series of crisis had delayed announcement of governorship election results till late on Sunday.
