Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has said his party will retrieve its governorship mandate in Imo
State at the Supreme Court.
Secondus said there are several grounds upon which PDP is
relying to ‘retrieve’ its mandate in Imo State.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the PDP National Chairman
expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would review and reverse the
judgment which declared Hope Uzodinma the winner of the last governorship
election in Imo State.
He insisted that the number of votes cast was higher than
the number of accredited voters, adding that the apex court Justices were
misled by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Uzodinma.
Secondus alleged that Uzodinma and APC fraudulently obtained
the verdict.
He said: “Both Uzodinma and the APC fraudulently misled the
Supreme Court into believing that 213,495 votes were unlawfully excluded from
the votes they scored in the governorship election, which was held on March 9,
2019.
‘‘If the lies told the Supreme Court are allowed to stay,
then the total number of votes cast at the election will be more than the total
number of voters accredited for the election. This cannot stay. We do not need
to set a bad precedence.
“The number of voters accredited for the election was
823,743 while the total valid votes cast was 731,485.
‘‘Therefore, the inclusion of 213,695 votes for both the APC
and Uzodinma would make the number of votes cast to be more than the number of
accredited number of voters for the election.’’
Recall that the Supreme Court had yesterday adjourned the
hearing of former Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha and PDP’s application, to
review its earlier verdict on the governorship election until March 2, 2020.
Ihedioha and PDP had urged the apex court among others to
reverse its judgment on January 14 which sacked him and replaced him with
Uzodinma.
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If ever, the Supreme Court verdict is reversed, then i will conclude that the Supreme Court is incompetent, corrupt and political.
ReplyDeleteI will also ask Nigerian not to depend on the Court for justice, and be fearful of the police misendeavours
Could it be that the allegedly excluded votes claimed by Uzodinma were also excluded from the calculation of accredited voters in the first instance since they were discountenanced by INEC? If so, Secondus argument will be baseless
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