PDP Panics as Tribunal Moves to Abuja

As part of efforts to test the authenticity of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) victory, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) leadership is set to challenge the Rivers State Governorship election results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the tribunal.

The Rivers State chapter of the PDP, sure of the credibility of the polls described the decision of the APC as a wasteful venture, expressing optimism that its candidates and the Governor-elect, will still emerge victorious.

The PDP chairman, Felix Obuah in a statement, said “in as much as it is normal and democratic for election result to be challenged justifiably, it finds the Rivers APC’s case as not yielding any positive result, as they do not have any authentic evidence to justify their claims of the exercises being compromised by INEC officials, the security agencies and the PDP in the state”.

The party, cautioning Gov Amaechi, Dakuku, Ikanya and other APC chieftains on their actions, says “it is aware that they have procured and are funding productions of fake and doctored video footages, which are currently being produced in known video studios in Port Harcourt and two other Local Government Council Areas in the state”.

Reacting to a statement credited to the state APC chairman, Davis Ibiamu Ikanya, claiming that their effort was to reclaim the party’s mandate, the PDP explained that it was the PDP mandate that was stolen by Gov Amaechi and the APC that has been recovered, stressing that Rivers people have spoken through their overwhelming votes for the PDP and the Governor-elect, at the polls.

“The PDP has nothing to fear in case Ikanya and his team of bad losers approach the Tribunal. Our concern is the fact that they should rather prepare to go to jail for the numerous electoral frauds committed not only in Rivers but in other states during the March 28 and April 11 elections, including Sokoto, Kano, Abia, Imo, Kaduna, Bauchi, Jigawa etc”, it said.

The PDP calls attention of the International community and INEC to the continued hiring of groups and local people, decorating them as foreign or accredited local observers with huge sums paid to them by Governor Amaechi as inducement only for them to condemn the conduct of the elections in the state.

The latest of these actions it said was an event in which Senator Magnus Abe gathered an obscure group of persons in Ogoni to discredit the elections that have been applauded to be free and fair, and which outcome has given the people of the state their Governor-elect, and other duly elected citizens of the state.

“It is regrettable that Chief Ikanya and his co-travelers have refused to accept the reality and join forces with the real progressives and democratic minds to move the state forward”, it added and called on the public not to be deceived by the lies peddled around by the APC supporters about the upturning of the election results saying such is an imagination of the underdogs.