The All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, has accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of working against the interest of the party in Imo state and actually ensuring that it lost the state.
Oshiomhole, who accused the incumbent governor of working with the agents of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Alliance to write results against the APC particularly in the governorship election, claimed that its governorship candidate Senator Hope Uzodinma clearly won the election.
Former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP was declared winner by the INEC n the contest Uzodinma of the APC was distant second.
But Oshiomhole, who had been in loggerheads with Okorocha and whose NWC led body eventually suspended the governor believes Imo state governorship results were written by Okorocha, and Ihedioha of the PDP.
He said the duo, “were writing results for the Action Alliance and PDP respectively when they knew that the APC governorship candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma, was coasting to victory.
“The results, which were read by the REC and his cohorts as results emanating from the exercise, were actually fake results written and handed over to the REC to read. But when you check the actual results from the polling units, APC’s Hope Uzodinma won the election with a large margin.
“It is now a common knowledge how Governor Okorocha was declared a winner in the senatorial election in Orlu zone, according to the returning officer, he declared him winner under duress.
“That will tell you that there was no way the AA candidate and son-in-law to the governor, Uche Nwosu, would have won an election anywhere in Imo, not to talk of defeating Senator Uzodinma, who is the incumbent senator representing Orlu zone.”
The national chairman said the Imo APC has rejected and condemned the result of that election, adding that the result did not represent the actual wish of the people of Imo.
According to him before the election, Uzodinma was the face of the opposition in Imo, the leader of the opposition and was generally referred to as the lion that brought Rochas to his knees in Imo.
“Anybody in Imo will tell you that but for Uzodinma’s doggedness and opposition towards the decision by Okorocha to install his son-in-law against the wish of the people, Uche Nwosu and his father-in-law would have had their way.
“Imo people were looking for liberation and Uzodinma was the face of that struggle. I can tell you that the election in Imo was a charade and should be cancelled.
“Elections did not hold in several local governments due to violence; Ohaji Egbema, Oguta, Ngor Okpalla, which is where they even burnt down the INEC office, the REC agreed earlier that the results there were tampered with, yet he declared results in this area,” he concluded.
In Nkware where Uche Nwosu comes from, a politician there shot somebody dead and there was fracas which led to the end of the election, yet miraculous results emerged from this local government.
You could see on national television when the REC was announcing the results, he was instructing ROs to reduce the number of voters where he felt there was over voting as if he was allocating lands.
When in actual fact he should have ordered for the cancellation of the results in those areas. The election in Imo was a complete sham.
He declared Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP winner without noticing that the PDP candidate did not meet the required 25% in 2/3 of the 27 local governments in the state.
They all knew that both Ihedioha and Uche Nwosu cannot match APC Uzodinma in any election, so there was the conspiracy between the governor and the PDP to stop Uzodinma.
But unfortunately for them now, the results we have from the polling units, APC has the highest votes and we are going to prove that in court.
