Rochas Okorocha, the outgoing governor of the state of Imo, says his Senator's election certificate can not be taken over by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Speaking on Wednesday, when a crowd of youth supporters marched into the Government House to protest against the elections just being held, Okorocha accused the resident commissioner (REC) sent to work against him.
According to Okoroch, anyone who decides to go against him will lose.
INEC removed the Okorochs name from the list of senators-elects who will receive certificates on Thursday, 14 March 2019. According to Okorocha, he was declared the winner of "forced" elections.
However, the governor went against the move, saying: "In my case, my return certificate has not been issued and I am wondering why INEC will withhold my certificate for no reason, without hearing me.
"I'm not a brutal person, and those who know me know about it. That's why we have a room at Imo State. The returning officer could not do this under duress under the watchful eye of the police, DSS and party agents. regardless of the fact that those who are fighting with me from Abuja want me to be removed as a senator, I am calling on INEC to act rightly by issuing my certificate.
"Let me tell every Nigerian that I have not fought anyone and nobody should fight me. If someone fights me, he will be the loser at the end of all this. My INEC certificate can not be touched or taken over, thus undermining democracy in Nigeria. Only the tribunal has the right to say differently after the result is announced. INEC can not take over my certificate with a simple petition written by someone in a case that I was not given the opportunity to submit my own story page. "
He also rejected the Governor's election result in state, stating that Emeka Ihedioha, Democratic People's Party (PDP) candidate and Governor-in-Chief Imo, did not have the required number of votes to select the winner.
He continued: "REC acted illegally, ignoring the provision of the Constitution, which obliges the candidate to hold 25 percent in two thirds of local governments in the state by announcing the PDP candidate, Emeka Ihedioha, who only met the requirement in 9 local governments instead of 18 LGAs, which is two thirds 27 LGA winners. "
Noting that the data from Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise and Ezinihitte, in which the PDP candidate received 64,199 votes from Aboh Mbaise himself, were "outrageous", he stressed that Uche Nwosu, a candidate governor of the Action Alliance (AA) won the election and was required to spread get 25 percent of votes in 21 out of 27 LGAs in stock.
"In order for REC to ignore the constitutional provision regarding the announcement of the winner of the governor's election, he explains only his desperation to announce the winner of the PDP nomination.
"I say this because, according to actual calculations, the person who won the election is Ugwumba Uche Nwosu. Uche Nwosu won the election in a landslide. If you delete the manipulated results from Mbaise, Uche Nwosu won with over 50,000 votes. If you can not consider him a winner because you already have someone, he should repeat, because you can not change the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria because you want to favor the candidate.
"In the course of this manipulation, we all noticed that the REC decided not to use officers to compare with the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), which he disbanded for reasons that he reported that they met with politicians. He brought back the people he introduced at the Umudike Agricultural University. They arrived the night before the election date and thought we had officers to collect. Again, these were resolved for the same reason that they met with politicians. I wonder how it is possible after arriving in the country after midnight on the eve of the election.
"Now REC has gone to his own university in Awce to collect collection officers. We believed him, not knowing that he had brought people who had been training in the hatchery in Anambra for a few weeks to come and live up to this injustice in the state of Imo.
"These people came with great security from Anambra and went straight to various local governments. We never knew that they were relatives of the PDP candidate and the same local self-government. They are relatives of the PDP candidate who have already been informed about what to do. This explains the excessive vote in Mbaise. Of the 270,000 votes he won, 50% of them, or over 130,000, came from three Mbaise local governments.
As far as I am concerned, we still maintain that the REC destroyed democracy in the Imo state. Unfortunately for them, they were not clever enough to know that section 179 requires you to have at least two-thirds of the local government
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