The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has given the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) 72 hours to provide it with relevant election papers for the cases at the Elections Petitions Tribunal.
The request was contained in a statement published in Port Harcourt by the State Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, according to Newsmen.
Nwauju claimed that the state commission’s office declined the party’s request for access to materials used in the recently ended National Assembly election.
JUST IN: Tinubu Seeks Court Injunction To Obtain Electoral Documents
The APC chieftain said that INEC’s Head of Operations in Rivers State, Mike Odeh, is conspiring with the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to deny the APC’s request.
Nwauju, who compared Odeh’s actions to stealing, stated that the party’s 72-hour warning was for INEC headquarters to direct the state office to provide the needed documents.
He claimed, however, that failing to do so would result in party members obstructing the commission’s offices in Rivers State.
Nwauju stated that “The APC in Rivers State had applied for the Certified True Copies of forms EC8A, EC8B, EC8C and other documents incidental to the recently conducted National Assembly elections in the state in which results were mutilated and or forged in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party in areas where our party clearly won and our candidates should have been declared winners if INEC had kept its promise of uploading results from the polling units to the IReV portal.
LATEST: Akume Backed To Succeed Adamu As APC National Chairman
“Instructively, the said Head of Operations against both the civil service rules, INEC guidelines and the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 (as amended) has consciously and viciously erected a wall to ensure he frustrates the moves of the APC in Rivers State to retrieve the stolen mandates of our National Assembly candidates.
“By refusing to release the relevant documents earlier listed, which are at the heart of prosecuting our petitions at the Elections Petitions Tribunal knowing too well that election petitions are time bound.
Follow us on Facebook
Post Disclaimer
The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the author and forum participants on this website do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Anaedo Online or official policies of the Anaedo Online.