The Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it has finalized arrangements with a team of legal experts to challenge the results of the April 11 governorship elections in the state.
The Peoples Democratic Party won the election.
The team, comprising of constitutional lawyers and senior legal practitioners versed in election-related matters, have vowed to use the legal means to nullify the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The APC governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, in a statement by his Director of Media and Political Communication, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, said the PDP rigged the elections so as to use Delta State’s financial resources and the party’s structure contacts in the judiciary to frustrate and/or pervert the course of justice after its candidate and Governor-elect, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, assumes office on May 29.
Emerhor asserted that the “open rigging” of the PDP is so glaring that the APC legal team will be able to get judgment by relying on the number of accredited voters captured by the card readers as well as video clips of certain persons, including INEC agents, caught on video thumb printing ballot papers in favour of the PDP and Labour Party.
Oghenesivbe quoted Emerhor as saying that the people of Delta State voted for the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, during the presidential election and also voted for the APC and its governorship candidate on April 11, but that the PDP through highly sophisticated election rigging strategies, including vote-buying, suppressed the electorate’s decision at the polls.
The statement added that the PDP was able to succeed to a large extent because of its criminal collaboration with some corrupt INEC officials who helped in thumb printing and election results falsification.
The Buhari administration, the statement said, will ensure that the riggers will not have people in the judiciary to bribe so as to run away with the true verdict of the good people of Delta State, adding: “We are optimistic that Okowa’s days in Government House will be short-lived.”