Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State, Chief
Emeka Iheidoha has dismissed as "baseless and laughable" allegation
by the All Progressive Congress(APC) that officials of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (NEC) connived with armed soldiers to
rig last months' presidential /National Assembly elections in favour
of the PDP.
Governor Okorocha had at a recent function in the State claimed that
the APC would have harvested more votes than it got in the last
elections but for the electoral fraud perpetrated by soldiers and
some Staff of the electoral umpire.
But refuting the allegation, Chief Ihedioha while addressing
newsmen in Owerri dismissed this as nothing short of the pot calling
the kettle black saying "it is no secret that some of Okorocha Aides
were arrested with all sorts of dangerous weapons which they had
stockpiled for the election. We won overwhelmingly in the elections
with all the three senatorial seats firmly in our hands and eight(8)
out of ten (10) seats for the Federal House of Representatives also in
our hands. How can the governor now turn around to cry wolf about the
results of the election when he did everything humanly possible to
cheat but the people rejected him".
The PDP governorship candidate expressed shock that the governor had
not apologized to the people of the state for the atrocity committed
by some of his officials during the election who according to him even
planned to turn the state into a battle field.
Chief Ihedioha equally accused the governor of harassing and
intimidating voters during the election and also tore INEC result
sheets while the people expected security agents to take action.
Chief Ihedioha who further accused the governor of manhandling some
university Professors boasted that a PDP government would response to
the worthy yearnings and aspirations of the people, utilize available
potentials for massive development and also put the state on the
national grid.
He expressed optimism that the electorate would not reject the PDP at
the polls, just as he congratulated the President elect-General
Muhammadu Buhari(retd) on his victory at the polls, urging him to
rule with the fear of God devoid of discrimination against any
part of the country.
He accused Okorocha of financial recklessness and of destroying the
fabric of both the traditional and judiciary Institutions in the
state, lamenting that the local government system in the state is now
lying comatose as a result of malfeasance of the APC led
administration.
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