2019 Guber’: Do Not Celebrate Yet – Akpabio Tells Udom

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By Abigail Joshua

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked the ongoing celebration of PDP’s victory in the just concluded guber poll. The Party stalwart and Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Godswill Akpabio, said this impress statement made available to Sensor News Desk.
Senator Akpabio described Governor Udom Emmanuel’s victory in Saturday’s governorship polls as a “purchased victory which must be reclaimed”.
It could be recalled that the just concluded governorship election in the State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel scored 519,712 votes to defeat his APC counterpart, Obong Nsima Ekere who scored 171,978 votes.
Speaking with our correspondent on the outcome of the elections in Uyo, Senator Akpabio said it was too early for Governor Emmanuel to celebrate his victory, adding that the APC would exploit appropriate legal means to reclaim its mandate.
“The celebration is only temporary as the APC will explore every means to get back all its mandates”.
“The results collated from the fields were different from the ones declared by the returning officers of the various Local Governments Areas of the State, adding that APC won the elections at the polling units but lost at INEC Officers. I was shocked when I saw the figures being brandished on television” Senator Akpabio explained.
“I wondered if they were the same results we got on the field that they were announcing on the television channels. This shows that Nigeria is in trouble.
“I want to state categorically that those claiming victory, or those regarded as victors in the last election in Akwa Ibom State should regard it as purchased victory. It was money at work. The people’s hopes were dashed.
“So, I want to tell Udom Emmanuel and his Peoples Democratic Party that it is too early to celebrate now. We will use appropriate legal means to reclaim that mandate “Akpabio said.
Akpabio alleged that his local government, which reportedly gave the APC governorship candidate 74,000 votes at the local government collation centres, was reduced to only 60,000 in INEC office. He accused INEC of employing PDP members as collation officers, adding that 99% of the collation officers, especially those sent to his local government area, were card-carrying PDP members.

©The Sensor Newspaper


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