The All Progressives
Congress lost all senatorial and House of Representatives elections held in the
region.
All 15 senatorial districts
in the five states, Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo were picked by the
candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party.
However, with the victory
by Muhummadu Buhari from the North and his South West deputy, Yemi Osinbajo,
the Senate president position would have normally gone to the South East but
for the outcome of the elections.
After Thursday’s Owerri
rally organised by the South East APC to celebrate Buhari’s victory, the Imo
state governor, Rochas Okorocha, said that the region should have elected a
ranking senator or member of the House of the Representatives on the platform
of the party to occupy either of the positions if PDP leaders from the zone had
not engineered the rigging of the National Assembly election held the same day
with that of the presidency.
He said that the former
governor, Chris Ngige, or the former senator, Osita Izunaso, both of whom contested
the election, would have been elected Senate president if they were not rigged
out at the election.
He said, “The South East is
entitled to either the Senate President or the Speaker of the Federal House.
But as I speak to you now because of the unholy act of last Saturday they (Igbo
leaders) have not been able to give us any ranking member of the Senate or
ranking member of the Federal House.
“You cannot be a Senate
President, you cannot be a Speaker unless you are somebody who has been there
before. It is our plan that Osita Izunaso should go to the Senate, Ngige should
go to Senate.
“Gentlemen, the truth is
that one of them should have been Senate President of Nigeria. But our people,
in their myopic thinking, in the smallness of their brain could not see the
light and today this act of theirs has denied Ndigbo the Senate President, this
act has denied Ndigbo the Speaker of the Federal House. I weep, I weep that
this kind of thing can be allowed to happen here.”
Okorocha said that politics
in the North is quite different from the kind of politics being exhibited by
South East leaders.
“This kind of thing could
not happen in Kano, it could not happen in Sokoto,” he said.
“But here in Igbo land they
use soldiers to kill their people. It is our political leaders who sponsored
this unholy act and we shall hold them responsible for every blood dropped
during this election.
“We know them and they know
we know them. They can be having their children abroad and be killing the poor
people here. We will resist it and we will say no. “
The governor accused Igbo
leaders of manipulating results and trying to give 1.3 million votes to
Jonathan in Imo state “but for our resistance they could not do it”.
He stressed, “It is not
true that anyone defeated Buhari in Imo State. He won this election in this
state. The nonsense is over. We have the details of all that happened in INEC
headquarters. It will be embarrassing if we show all that happened to the
world.”
Ngige explained how he was
rigged out of the polls in which he lost to a serving member of the House of
Representatives, Uche Ekwunife of the PDP.
He said that one of his
agents was kidnapped and the collation order was also kidnapped.
According to the former
governor, “The only thing I want to assure you people is that you have lost
nothing. General Buhari has won the election. APC will form the next national
government. We are going to recover all these seats, all the allocation they
gave to us. All the allocations they gave to us, they allocated to me 20 votes
from Anambra Central and Buhari 17, 960 votes, for the whole of Anambra. Is it
possible?”
The APC had lost all the
senatorial positions in the South East and accused the PDP of rigging the
elections in the region.
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