Indigenes of Kogi Central Senatorial District have told their representative, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that the court order she obtained restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission from receiving a petition for her recall was an exercise in futility as it won’t assist her in not returning home.
Akpoti-Uduaghan’s constituents said her decision to resort to the court was a sign that “she has realised that she is as good as gone”.
According to the constituents, who cut across the five local government areas of the Senatorial District, once intentions are not pure, individuals are bound to commit irreversible blunders, “which is the case of Mrs. Akpoti-Uduaghan, even in the construction of her court injunction statement”.
In a statement released on Friday by the Kogi Central Renaissance Assembly, the constituents claimed that desperation had pushed the senator to describe the recall signatures as fictitious, saying that should have been left for INEC to unravel during its verification exercise.
The statement said: “It is laughable that the same person who has called the recall process a sham is the same person that has gone to tell the court to restrain the electoral umpire from receiving or acting on the petition, even when she says the signatures are fictitious.
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“We understand your plight.
“This is last-minute desperation to save yourself the embarrassment of a recall.
“But we, Constituents of Kogi Central, insist that you have already embarrassed both yourself and the District, and home you shall come.
“The courts are for everybody.
“You can’t force yourself on us.
“Even you should know that this your course of action is dead on arrival.”
In the statement signed by the Coordinator, KCRA, Adeku Joshua; and Secretary, Maleek Sule, the Kogi Central Senatorial District indigenes insisted that they would follow the recall process through in order to redeem their image, the image of the state, and that of Nigeria at large.
They added: “We, Ebiras, are not enablers of blackmail and unruly behaviour.
“We stand by this recall and will see it through.
“The world should know that we are people of integrity.
“Enough of embarrassing the entire country on the world stage over ridiculous allegations backed by no evidence.”
A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State had on Friday granted an interim injunction restraining INEC, its staff, or agents from receiving, accepting, or acting on any petition containing what Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan called “fictitious signatures of purported members of the Kogi Central Senatorial District”.
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