Athan Achonu, governorship candidate of the Labour Party
(LP) in Imo state, says democracy is under attack.
Speaking with reporters during Saturday’s election, the LP
candidate said the masses will resist the attack, and called on the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to embark on a rerun of the poll.
He alleged that there were several infractions during the
conduct of the election.
“In so many places, it is either the INEC staff refused to
sign the result or refused to upload. It took the intervention of security
operatives, who came here before they started uploading the results,” Achonu
said.
“The machine they
said could not upload suddenly started uploading. Maybe, if I was not from this
area, it would not have been possible. There are even places in Aboh Mbaise
where they did not have result sheets.
“We are winning massively on the ground. They have done
everything humanly possible to thwart that but we will not allow that; Imolites
will not allow that.
“I hope INEC is hearing me clearly now. They should declare
our results the way they are. They can’t change our results.
“The All Progressives
Congress government should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost the
election and they are trying to change the result.
“In Orlu, they moved the entire electoral materials to the
house of a traditional ruler. Orsu was worse; it is madness. They were doing
cluster voting.
“They blocked people from coming out to vote and then
brought some people with cards they hired from somewhere to vote, claiming they
were the people who ran away from home.
“Democracy is under attack but we are resisting it. That is
why you see all these people here so that we can have proper democracy and good
governance.
“Of course, INEC must cancel everywhere this madness occurred and order a rerun.”
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