Okorocha, INEC Will Meet Me At Tribunal --Osmond Ukanacho

Gubernatorial candidate of the United Progressives Party (UPP), in Imo
State in the just concluded election, Dr. Osmond Ukanacho, has
reiterated his decision and resolve to take the tribunal his grouse
over the irregularities and malpractices that characterized the
election.

Since after the governorship election on April 11 and the subsequent
supplementary/re-run election on April 25, Ukanacho has not relented
in his agitation for the elections to be cancelled.

He had tenaciously catalogued numerous reasons for his continued
demand for the cancellation of the elections to include massive
rigging by the two big parties and their allies from the other
parties. He also stated that the elections witnessed the corrupt
inducement of electorates and INEC officials with money and food.

Ukanacho stated that is particularly vexed by the day light incidences
of intimidation with guns, machetes and other weapons, snatching of
ballot paper and ballot boxes that were allegedly openly perpetrated
across, the state and was purportedly crowned with the writing of
results by politicians outside the authority and control of INEC.

In an interview before the supplementary election, Ukanacho had stated
that should INEC go ahead to announce a winner in the election, he
would go to the tribunal to seek the nullification of the election and
its results.

The Senior Special Assistant on Media Affairs to Ukanacho, Mr. Chidi
Emeagu, in a reply to a question whether his principal would make real
his threat to go to the tribunal, stated that Ukanacho was almost
certainly going to present his petition to the tribunal.

"Yes, we said that and still maintain it. But we are not at the
tribunal yet because we are trying to put our materials and documents
together," Emeagu stated.

From this statement, it is apparent that Dr. Osmond Imo Ukanacho of
the UPP will drag Governor Okorocha and INEC to the tribunal.