Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State, Chief Emeka Iheidoha, has dismissed as, “baseless and laughable”, allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (NEC) connived with armed soldiers to rig last month’s presidential /National Assembly elections in favour of the PDP, describing the Imo State governor, as a drowning man whose time is up.
Governor Okorocha had at a recent function claimed that the APC would have harvested more votes than it got in the last elections but for the electoral fraud perpetrated by soldiers and some staff of the electoral umpire.
Reacting to the allegation of massive rigging by Governor Okorocha, Hon Ihedioha, while addressing newsmen in Owerri said: “It is no secret that some of Okorocha’s aides were arrested for stockpiling cards a day to the election. We won overwhelmingly in the elections with all the three senatorial seats firmly in our hands and eight out of 10 seats for the Federal House of Representatives also in our hands. How can the governor now turn round to cry wolf about the results of the election when he did everything humanly possible to cheat but the people rejected him”.
The PDP governorship candidate expressed shock that the governor had not apologised to the people of the state for the atrocity committed by some of his officials during the election, who according to him even planned to turn the state into a battle field.
He equally accused Okorocha of harassing and intimidating voters during the election and also tore INEC result sheets, while the people expected security agents to take action.
Ihedioha expressed optimism that PDP would win at the polls, just as he congratulated the President elect, General Muhammadu Buhari(retd) on his victory at the polls, urging him to rule with the fear of God, devoid of discrimination against any part of the country.
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