The Anambra State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who is a star witness in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Chief Ndubisi Nwobu, has faulted reports that he told the tribunal that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi rigged the February 25 presidential election in Anambra State, saying his statement was twisted to divert attention.
Nwobu testified for PDP and Atiku on Wednesday.
Reacting through the
state deputy director in charge of media and publicity of the Atiku/Okowa
Presidential Campaign Committee, Uloka Chibuike, the PDP chairman said the case
filed by his party at the tribunal was against the APC and INEC, adding that it
has nothing to do with LP or Peter Obi.
The statement read: ” The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party and
Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Committee in Anambra State has been drawn to
a publication in the public space where the purveyors of fake news alleged that
Chief Ndubisi Nwobu claimed that Peter Obi rigged the presidential election in
Anambra State at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Court.
“This is not only false, wicked and devilish, but also a deliberate
attempt by a few innuendos to discredit and blackmail Chief Nwobu’s person.
“We wish to state
unequivocally and for the record that the Peoples Democratic Party did not file
a petition against the Labour Party, nor did the PDP name the Labour Party as a
respondent in her suits at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Court;
rather, our petitions are against the All Progressives Congress Party (APC) and
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“Chief Ndubisi Nwobu was
at the Tribunal on the 7th day of June, 2023, as the 11th witness of Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, to testify against INEC’s
refusal to adhere to its own election guidelines, which states that polling
unit results are to be electronically transmitted with the Bimodal Voter
Accreditation System (BVAS) directly and in real-time to the IREV portal.
“Chief Ndubisi Nwobu did
not, by any means or disguise states that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate
of the Labour Party, ‘rigged’ the presidential election in Anambra State or
anywhere else.
“The tribunal went
further to ask Chief Nwobu who won the election in Anambra State; he responded
explicitly that the Labour Party won the presidential election in the state and
that his party is not in court with the Labour Party, but with INEC, having
reneged on her own guidelines.
“While we call on unsuspecting members of the public to kindly disregard
the fake news that Chief Ndubisi Nwobu accused Peter Obi of rigging the
presidential elections in Anambra State, we also wish to warn online bloggers
against patronizing stories with sensational headlines without proper
investigations.
“The Peoples Democratic
Party and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, are determined to present
all evidence against INEC and the APC to convince the Presidential Election
Petition Court that the mandate willingly given to Atiku Abubakar by the
majority of Nigerians was wrongly appropriated and that such matters must be
addressed to retrieve the mandate from the APC.
“Those wishing to divert
attention, frame and defame innocent individuals, should desist or face the
consequences of their actions.”
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