Godswill Akpabio, senator who
represented Akwa Ibom north-west district in the 8th assembly, says God will
soon expose those who “fraudulently orchestrated” his loss in the last national
assembly election.
Speaking at Ukana, Essien Udim
local government area of the state while empowering some of his constituents,
Akpabio accused Mike Igini, resident electoral commissioner of the state, of
denying him of the mandate freely given to him.
He described Igini as the “most
compromised electoral officer in Nigeria and should not be allowed to hold
public office”.
He insisted that he did not lose
the election, and urged his people not to be dismayed by the temporary setback.
“Please nobody should have any
headache, nobody should cry because there is no need. You know your senator
cannot lose election because we were all there,” he said.
“But many of them thought they
can go and write whatever they like and even cancel what you won. I have never
in my life experienced a resident electoral commissioner like Mike Igini and my
message to him is that his hypocrisy will be exposed.
“There is no way you can come
into Akwa Ibom and commit that kind of electoral fraud you committed then you
go back to Channels Television and sit down and talk as if you are a pope.
“Very soon the world will know…
All the materials we are recovering everyday will expose you.
“Just yesterday, the police
arrested people carrying materials from where they voted and were trying to
sneak into INEC. The other day, they arrested someone with card readers. He was
frantically calling and trying to say that they were used for training three
months after election so that they will continue to manipulate.”
Akpabio said he intends to join
President Muhammadu Buhari to sanitise the nation’s electoral system.
”For me, it is important as a
former governor and elder statesman to join the President to sanitize the
electoral process so that we will ensure that votes count in future elections,”
he said.
”There is no need for Nigeria to
continue taking one step forward and five steps backward.”
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