• Asks LP to account for Nsukka ‘miracle’ votes
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council in Enugu State has taken a swipe at the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the state, Chijioke Edeoga, saying he has no mandate to reclaim as far as the March 18 governorship election is concerned.
The Campaign Council said Edeoga should rather account for what it described as “massive electoral fraud and ruthless militarisation of the election” by LP.
The PDP was reacting to a statement by Edeoga during a victory party by the LP member-elect for Udenu State Constituency, Obinna Ijere, at Obollo-Afor, on Wednesday.
The LP governorship candidate was quoted to have said he would do everything possible to reclaim his mandate, saying: “No retreat, no surrender. No negotiation. Forward ever, backward never until victory is assured.”
But reacting, the Director of Communications/Spokesperson of the state PDP Campaign Council, Nana Ogbodo, yesterday, said: “Edeoga and his LP should wake up to the reality that the Enugu governorship election has been won and lost.”
They should get used to the fact that we now have a governor-elect in the person of Dr. Peter Mbah in whom the people of the state vested their mandate and nothing can change it.”
Continuing, the PDP said Edeoga and LP should be held responsible for inciting and perpetrating electoral violence in parts of the state during the governorship election.
Hear him:“Nigerians heard the senator-elect and LP chieftain, Okey Ezea, loud and clear when he announced, in a viral video, that they would make the governorship election a ‘do-or-die affair.’
“Indeed, LP lived up to that declaration when the party’s chieftains, as well as serving and retired generals they assembled used men of the armed forces and thugs to carry out reckless shooting, arrests, intimidation, manhandling of PDP supporters, and to perpetrate the worst electoral fraud in the history of Nsukka and Isi-Uzo councils, in particular, as well as Enugu North Senatorial zone, in general.
