SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE WHO BECOMES ANAMBRA GOVERNOR – APC

 

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Anambra State Chapter has said that the Supreme Court and not INEC will be the final decider of who becomes Anambra State, irrespective of the Novermber 6 election results. 

Chairman of the Party in Anambra State, Mr. Basil Ejidike, made this declaration on Sunday while calling for the cancellation of the Gubernatorial polls, due to what he described as massive rigging of the entire process.

In a statement made available to journalists on Sunday night in Awka, Anambra State, Mr Ejidike accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) of conniving with the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to rigg the Anambra elections.

However, INEC has declared the elections inconclusive, despite the fact that results from 19 out of 20 Local Government Areas gave the APGA, PDP and APC candidates a total vote of 103946, 51322 and 42942, respectively. 

“What is happening in Anambra is never an election but a big time electoral fraud and malpractice. We want the whole world to hear our voice that we will never accept the outcome of the Anambra gubernatorial election.

“The candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the sitting Governor, Willie Obiano, manipulated the whole electoral system and we will stand to resist it. Ndi Anambra wants an APC Governor and there’s nothing anyone can do to deny them that opportunity.

“We virtually won in all the Local Government, but Willie Obiano and Charles Soludo, through instrumentality, corrupt-minded INEC officers, subverted the whole process in favour of APGA. We want INEC to cancel the election and fix a date for a fresh election devoid of manipulations and malpractices”, the statement read in part. 

The APC Chairman said his party will spare no expense or thought in heading to the court, if the APGA and not APC is declared by INEC as the winner of the elections. He also said that his party is more than ready to pursue the litigation up to the Supreme court. 

However, the State Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Nobert Obi debunked the claims, saying that the APC allegations were nothing but the frantic efforts of a drowning man. He said the Anambra people are the witness to how the elections went. 

He said that his party is unafraid of the courts, especially when the context in question was the freest and fairest he had seen in recent times. 

“I don’t want to talk about the accusation. The accusation is uncalled for as everyone witnessed a free and fair election. I don’t know where they got such information from.”

He said the APGA is ready to have its day in court in contest with the APC, if push comes to shove.