The All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Akwa Ibom state has written the attorney general of the federal and
minister for justice, demanding the relocation of the election tribunal from
the state to Abuja over alleged partisanship.
Ini Okopido, the state chairman
of the party, made the demand in a letter where he cited alleged attempts to
perpetuate electoral fraud by Mike Igini, INEC’s resident electoral commissioner
(REC), in collusion with the state government and the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
He claimed the PDP was on a
mission to destroy electoral materials needed to substantiate the election
petition of the APC in the state.
“We observe with deep regrets
that since Mr. Mike Igini superintended over the worst general elections ever
conducted in Akwa Ibom State, that was fraught with manifest irregularities and
wide spread electoral infractions, the REC is now unveiling a grand scheme to
thwart and create a chaotic environment to pave way for the pervasion of
justice,” said Okopido.
“We have been reliably informed
that the REC is now intimidating electoral officers who participated in the
just concluded general elections in the State, particularly, Collation
Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs), Presiding Officers (POs) and
Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs), handing over their phone numbers to hired
assassins and PDP killer squad to forcefully coerce them to concoct and
fabricate false reports of violence, ballot paper snatching, all in a bid to justify the clandestine activities
of Mr. Mike Igini days after the purported declaration of results, seeing that
unit results will expressly show that candidates of the All Progressives
Congress clearly won the elections by the votes directly delivered at the
polling units across the state.
“This latest action by the
leadership of INEC in Akwa Ibom State has vindicated our stand expressed in
various foras before the general elections that Mr. Mike Igini is a biased
umpire, heavily compromised by the Akwa Ibom State Government to truncate the
smooth conduct of a free and fair elections.”
The APC chairman said INEC under
Igini “cannot guarantee credibility and the ethos of fair play as demonstrated
with this plot hatched to frustrate the electoral process.”
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