The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the November 11 2023 Governorship Election in Imo State, Samuel Anyanwu has described the recent verdict by the Supreme Court on the state governorship poll as the legalization process of electoral fraud.
He insisted that he won the election but that the Apex court turned a blind eye to his victory.
He made the assertion in a press statement issued by his Media Aide, Ikenna Onuoha.
The PDP candidate, who is also the National Secretary of the party, however, expressed gratitude to his supporters for their steadfastness throughout the period of the legal battle.
He claimed that he was denied victory by the All Progressives Congress APC in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.
“Imo people on November 11, 2023, came out en masse and voted for me in a bid to guarantee development, economic stability, social sanity, security of lives, properties and other dividends that could advance our nascent democracy” the release stated.
Senator Anyanwu alleged that the clear mandate that was given to him was hijacked by agents of APC in alleged connivance with officials of INEC.
“Painfully, the Apex Court gave legal affirmation to that charade by upholding the declaration of the candidate of APC as the true winner of the election” the release further stated.
The PDP National scribe pointed out that the citizens of the state are still surprised over the Supreme Court judgement by giving a wrongly declared winner a Supreme legal backing which he said will continue to hurt and hunt the Nigeria Judiciary.
He also lashed out at the Tribunal and Appeal Court for committing what he described as a legal blunder by dismissing a clear electoral crime allegedly committed by APC.
The PDP candidate further regretted that the Apex Court which was expected to right the wrong failed to do the needful.
“It can be recalled that the Election Petition Tribunal and Appeal Court respectively had earlier committed legal blunder by dismissing an appeal bordering on obvious Electoral fraud allegedly committed by the APC and its agents but the supreme court, expected to correct the error still toed the same line of legal disservice and affirmed the APC candidate as the winner of the November 11 Governorship election” the release declared.
Following the development, the PDP candidate has appealed to his supporters and concerned Nigerians to be calm, law-abiding and eschew any act that may create social unrest or disrupt the peaceful atmosphere in the state.
