Uzodinma challenges defeat at tribunal

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja



The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said its defeat in the March 9 governorship elections in Imo and Oyo States was largely due to the people’s disenchantment in the performance of the governors.

The party’s position came just as its governorship candidate in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, petitioned the state governorship Election Petition Tribunal, asking it to nullify the declaration of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Emeka Ihedioha, as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Isa-Onilu, in an interview with journalists at the weekend, said the party had ensured a level playground for people to face the electorate and for the electorate to pass judgement on the candidate put forward for elections.

Speaking with particular reference to the losses suffered by the APC in Imo and Oyo States, Onilu said the party lost due to its principled stand that impunity must no longer reign.

“You could see that we lost the presidential election in Oyo and Ondo State where we have sitting governors.

“But because we didn’t want to condone impunity, we did all we did in Imo State in a way to undermine ourselves, and the choice we had was to accept what would have amounted to the impunity so that we could win Imo State, but we said no, we would rather do what is decent,” he said.

While assessing the performance of APC in the last general election, Onilu said contrary to expectations that the party would mobilise all the resources of coercion at its disposal to ensure victory for its candidates, the reverse was the case as everyone was allowed to face the electorate without hindrance.

He also talked about the slim margin loss the party suffered in the hands of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State as well as the defeat of its candidates in other states, saying APC should be commended for not deploying incumbency to its advantage.

According to him, “But the important thing to note is that, being a journalist myself, I began to ask what has happened to us “The media should also report that a ruling party that is supposed to mobilise all the resources of coercion to get what you want, but didn’t do that, and you have now reported that we lost some major states.

“I will tell you that the only reason that happened was because this party has provided a platform for people to go and face the electorate and for the electorate to pass judgement on the people that had been put forward without anybody doing anything against it.”

Onilu said what happened in Rivers State, where APC was excluded from the election would have been different if it were during the time PDP was in power at the centre.

He said Rivers State would have been locked down for the PDP to have its way.

“We have witnessed it in this country during PDP reign that a state would be locked down. Their own method is ‘win by all means, let others go to tribunal’. We didn’t apply such principle,” said Onilu.

The APC spokesman further said the 2019 general election has recorded impressive milestones that should be commended.

According to Onilu, the last election has seen major politicians in this country losing elections even in APC.

He said: “You saw a serving governor in Oyo State who couldn’t win one-third of the state to get to the Senate.

“You saw a man of Godswill Akpabio calibre even though we know there are issues to that, and it would be corrected, but at the same time, we should have deployed the federal might in such a way that we would want to arm-twist anybody or the system or manipulate the system.”

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of APC in Imo State, Uzodinma has petitioned the election tribunal, urging it to declare him winner of the election, having polled majority of the lawful votes cast at the election and satisfied the mandatory constitutional spread across the state and “ought to be declared the winner.”

In a statement made available to THISDAY yesterday by Uzodinma, the petition alleged that the INEC fraudulently excluded votes for the APC at the polling units across the state which gave the PDP candidate advantage, adding however that after tabulating the valid votes at the polling units, the APC candidate defeated the PDP candidate with a large margin.

The petition opined that “it was at the course of collation of the results at the ward, local government and state levels, that the third respondent (INEC) incorrectly stated the votes of the first respondent (Ihedioha) and thus reduced the votes of the petitioners by excluding the results from the polling units where the petitioners scored overwhelming majority of the votes cast.

Uzodinma further argued that the INEC did not comply with the Electoral Act 2010 and INEC guidelines for 2019 general election when it recruited relatives of the PDP candidate as Collation and Returning Officers in most of the local government areas in the state during the election.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/08/apc-why-we-lost-election-in-imo-oyo-others/amp/

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This isa is crazy. No south east governor has done what Rochas did in imo in terms of development
It’s funny coming from someone from Kogi state

Hmmmm

Ok, so why do you rig kano election?

Apc can never win election in south east if not that okorocha used Apga to become governor only to dump it later and decamped to APC we wont be talking of APC governor in south east

I just will wait here to see who will tell me Rochas is a saint !!!!!!!

thunder is actually not expensive in this part of Nigeria!!!!!

Afonja007:
Apc can never win election in south east if not that okorocha used Apga to become governor only to dump it later and decamped to APC we wont be talking of APC governor in south east

He won second term with Apga?

The answer to that is very simple nau....the people have realised what a monumental fraud the APC represents and decided to boot them out. The only people left with the broom wielding party are those in Zone B...

Guzel:

He won second term with Apga?

his an incumbent governor pls

He said the truth about what PDP would have done, if you don't agree with him then argue with your destiny

failures, if no be magomago una no go even smell Nigeria again

ijustdey:



Uzodinma challenges defeat at tribunal
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/08/apc-why-we-lost-election-in-imo-oyo-others/amp/

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how?

Although we didn't ask for an explanation, I think the obvious would be: the people made their choice??

nosense talk. obi, rochas, osho and co won during d pdp days &heavens didnt fall. apc sud stop wailing &face dia loss

Guzel:

He won second term with Apga?

He won second term as incumbent.

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