Ebonyi PDP Rejects Governorship Election Result, Heads To Tribunal

The Ebonyi state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP  has  rejected the victory of Francis Nwifuru, candidate of the APC, in the governorship election in the state.

Nwifuru received 199,131 votes to defeat Ifeanyi Odii of the PDP, who got 80,191 votes.

Ifeanyi Nworie, PDP chairman in the state, while addressing the press on Thursday said the party has commenced a legal process to “reclaim” the mandate of the party.

He alleged that the election was marred by armed thuggery, voter intimidation, vote buying and other irregularities.

“PDP is challenging the outcome of the election in a court of competent jurisdiction. We are a peace-loving people and we remain obedient to the constitution of the land and to the rule of law,” he said.

“We, therefore, state that we reject in totality the outcome of the governorship election and results of the house of assembly election in some areas and we must reclaim our mandate at the court of law.

“Arising from these monumental irregularities, we state that the declaration of any other candidate instead of Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii is of no effect whatsoever. The results in our possession indicate otherwise, we make it clear that we are determined to prove that based on the valid votes cast as Odii scored the highest number of votes.

“Our candidate polled not less than one-quarter of the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local governments in the state and as such, he ought to have been declared and returned as the winner of the governorship election.”