The PDP candidate in the just concluded by-election for the Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency,Hon.,Mike Usibe has vowed to go to court over the results of the election in which the APC candidate, Chief Jude Ngaji was declared winner.
According to Usibe, ” there are fundamental issues that can not be glossed over, in the interest of the electoral process, the good people of the ogoja/yala Federal Constituency and posterity”.
He accused the governor of unleashing unprecedented violence on the electoral process.
See full text of statement below,
PRESS RELEASE
Arising from the Ogoja/Yala Federal constituency by-election, which took place on Saturday, 26th February,2022, there are fundamental issues that can not be glossed over, in the interest of the electoral process, the good people of the ogoja/yala Federal Constituency and posterity.
First, the people came out and voted massively for their party of choice, Peoples DemocraticParty(PDP) and outrightly rejected Gov Ayade and the All Progressives Congress(APC).The PDP clearly won the election.
Second,the Governor, realizing that the APC had lost, ordered a mixed group of security forces and cultists led by his Aide de Camp( ADC) and Chief Security Officer(CSO) to unleash on the electoral process, unprecedented violence. This vicious group of marauders, ultimately held INEC officials hostage,forcing them to post false results in favour of the APC.
In the light of the foregoing, I hereby state clearly that I am the authentic winner of the by-election and should have been so declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This old-fashioned electoral fraud will be appropriately redressed within the confines of the law.
I thank the good people of Ogoja/Yala and all my supporters for giving me their mandate, which by the grace of God is still intact.
Signed:
Hon. Mike Ede Usibe
PDP Candidate
Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency by-election.
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