Engr. Chinedu Onyeizu of the Labour Party has faulted the declaration of the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Enyinnaya Abaribe by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of the February 25th National Assembly Election in the senatorial district.
Speaking to Swift Reporters in an exclusive interview in Abuja on Tuesday, Engr. Chinedu Onyeizu said that it is a failure on the part of INEC to declare a winner in an inconclusive election where a total of 500,000 voters are likely to be disfranchised and reject the declaration by the returning officer who had earlier announced the exercise inconclusive.
“I must emphasize the issue of disenfranchising a lot of Abia Southerners that are supposed to vote in 108 polling units where elections in those areas were declared inconclusive by the INEC Returning Officer, that area is the stronghold of the Labour Party in the Senatorial district with over 70,000 disenfrichised.
“I want to know why in other parts of the country, polling units where elections didn’t hold, the returning officers declared them inconclusive and have announced dates for supplementary elections, he stated.
Recall that last Tuesday, INEC Returning Officer for Abia South National Assembly elections, Georgina Ugwuanyi, said Abaribe got the highest number of votes in the election, having scored 49,903 votes.
She further announced that Onyeizu scored 43,903, while Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party scored 28,422 votes to come third.
He called on Sen. Abaribe to give him his stolen mandate, after all, his sixteen years in the senate have not been beneficial to the people of Abia South Senatorial Districts.
