The Labour Party (LP) candidate for the just-concluded governorship election in Enugu State, Chijioke Edeoga, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of rigging the gubernatorial election.
Speaking in an interview with the Sunday
Telegraph, the former local government chairman, commissioner, and House of
Representatives member claimed that evidence shows that LP won the election.
While expressing confidence in regaining his
mandate, Edeoga noted that with the success recorded by the LP in the
Presidential, National Assembly, and the State Assembly elections, it was
grossly illogical to say that LP lost the governorship poll in Enugu State.
Edeoga said: “In the presidential election,
LP recorded more than 80 percent success. Most of the votes cast in Enugu State
were cast for LP. In the National Assembly elections, which went on
concurrently, out of the eight House of Representatives seats, LP won seven
clearly and convincingly; out of the two senatorial positions that were
contested that day, LP won one convincingly, in fact, defeating the incumbent
governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi with a margin of more than 50,000
votes.
“What is on the ground is that LP won clearly
two senatorial seats in Enugu State against the three that are available. LP
won seven House of Representatives seats out of the eight that are available;
LP won 14 House of Assembly seats out of the 24 that are available.
“So, the award of victory to PDP (in the
governorship), which INEC did working in collaboration with INEC officers in
Enugu and Abuja, flies against what is evident on the ground as expressed
through the number of victories that LP secured.”
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