The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has said it won’t join the African Action Congress (AAC) to protest the
second term victory of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, in the just
concluded gubernatorial election in the state.
APC’s National Publicity
Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, made this known during the weekend while
fielding questions from reporters in Abuja.
He noted that although some local
government area results were questionable, the APC would not challenge them at
the Election Tribunal because the party had nothing to do with the polls.
Issa-Onilu said: “It is not true
that APC felt hurt over PDP’s victory. We don’t have anything to do with the
Rivers State election. APC didn’t have candidates in the election and that is
why, from the beginning, we didn’t throw ourselves so much into it.
“You knew that the Supreme Court
ruled that we were not qualified to contest. So, on that basis, whatever what
happened in Rivers, whether at the local government that gave 80,000 votes
during the presidential election and suddenly produced 320,000 votes for Wike
during governorship election didn’t hurt us in any way.
“If INEC says that was correct,
fine; it is up to the parties involved to take action if they find it necessary
but for us at APC, we didn’t have the opportunity to contest unfairly in Rivers
State,” he said.
Recall that the APC National
Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole had earlier disowned the alliance between the
party’s faction in Rivers state led by Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi,
and the AAC, to unseat the incumbent Governor Wike of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP.
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