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Dear Sir,
For
deceiving the nation including the
Acting President, distinguished
Nigerians, corporate organizations and
the international community who sent
congratulatory messages to Peter Obi,
the INEC Chairman should be sacked with
immediate effect. We are talking about
illegality and constitutionality as they
concern the electoral law of Nigeria.
INEC had every opportunity to analyze
properly the total votes cast for and
received by each candidate in the last
Anambra gubernatorial election to avoid
the deceit that has now been uncovered.
Even Professor Soludo who is aware that
he would not benefit should there be a
run-off election since it would be
between the two candidates that have the
highest number of votes cast, has
recanted his conceding of victory which
led him to congratulate Obi. He is now
singing a different tune; saying that
Obi did not win the election. This is to
show how deceitful INEC was in the
exercise.
Given that the election went concluded
without much of the anticipated war
situation in spite of disenfranchisement
of registered voters, only 16% of them
were allowed to perform one of their
civic responsibilities of voting. This
was caused by INEC's inefficiency. The
fact that Obi did not score 25% of total
number of votes cast in two-thirds of
the 21 Local Government Areas as
required by the electoral act renders
the result inconclusive. The law must
be followed to the letter. There is no
way this illegality would stand the test
of time and moreover everyone that
congratulated Obi did so because they
depended on the declaration of the INEC.
As a result of this situation which
nonetheless made mockery of the result,
Professor Maurice Iwu requires a sack
and a run-off election conducted between
Obi and Ngige. If after that Obi wins,
then well and good but the illegality
committed by INEC should not be allowed
otherwise it would continue in the
coming elections.
Alhaji Musa Salem
Aguiyi Ironsi
Street
ABUJA.
musasalem68@yahoo.com
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OBI OWES HIS
VICTORY TO INEC, PDP & ITS 'MEMBERS'
BY DR SORIWEI IGONI
Sir ,
Apart from divine intervention that
Anambra would not be on fire as
predicted by bookmakers, it is a fact
that Obi should thank spoilers, decamped
PDP members, and PDP anti-party
rabble-rousers. God made it in a way
that voters were disenfranchised and yet
the expected trouble did not take place.
It should be recalled that INEC created
a situation where only 16% (301,000) of
the registered voters were allowed to
exercise their civic responsibility even
though many filed out to fulfil their
obligation.
Among those that made Obi's day were
spoilers like Chris Uba and his team who
have expressed happiness that Soludo
lost. Others are decamped PDP members
that contested on other political
parties platforms, namely Andy Uba (LP),
Uche Ekwunife (PPA), Ukachukwu (HDP);
and anti-party commentators like
Governor Godswill Akpabio, Senator Annie
Okonkwo, Chief Don Etiebet, etc. All
this show how weak the PDP's National
Working Committee and its National
Executive Council under the Chairmanship
of Prince Ogbulafor are.
PDP
might be heading for the rocks in the
coming elections if they failed to sort
out things amicably in more than the
following States “ Plateau, Akwa Ibom,
Oyo, Ebonyi, Edo, etc. It is not too
late to have a clean slate, starting
with ouster of Prince Ogbulafor. PDP
lacks internal democracy and selective
in treating anti-party activities of its
members.
Dr. Soriwei P.
Igoni,
University of Port
Harcourt,
Choba, Rivers
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