RT. HON. BENJAMIN UWAJUMOGU
CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION
ATT: IMO NORTH SENATORIAL RE-RUN
Our attention has been drawn to a potpourri of cynical, contrived and jaundiced reports, being prominently sponsored in the various platforms of the media by some select members of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, regarding the outcome of last Saturday's Imo North senatorial re-run election between Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu of the APC and his PDP counterpart, Chief Athan Achonu.
In some of the mendacious reports, PDP chieftains like its defeated governorship candidate in the 2015 gubernatorial election in the state, Emeka Ihedioha, was alleged to have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to return the PDP candidate as the winner of the yet-to-be concluded election, citing negative conspiracy by the ruling APC to thwart what he called the 'wishes' of the people.
As a focused campaign organization, it might be out of place to dignify Ihedioha and his co-travelers with a comment, going by the fact that they are still leaking the sour taste of defeat encountered during last year's gubernatorial election in the state.
It is highly unconscionable and a total slap on the sensibility of Ndi-Okigwe zone for the Ihedioha’s faction of the PDP, in their defeatist mentality, to condemn one the most peaceful and credible elections ever conducted in the history of the country. With the transparent process of the entire exercise, the party can now see what it takes for the wishes of the masses to be respected.
Ihedioha and his defeated cohorts must be reminded that Okigwe zone collectively voted CHANGE from impunity to real respect and regard for the rule of law, as well as from under-development to rapid zonal development. He must be told in unequivocal terms that Okigwe is never Mbaise where three local government areas wanted to outnumber the entire Imo state.
Maybe they have forgotten, Okigwe people voted for historic change, over "wawa dominance" and light over darkness, as can be seen in the numerous life-changing infrastructures and amenities, attracted by the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu's four year speakership stint at the Imo state House of Assembly.
For want of clarification, some of them include: over 15kms of rural roads in each of the six LGAs that make up the zone. The Okigwe urban renewal project, Obowo Malaysian International market, general hospitals and a stadium. Others are: the Imo state College of Education, Ihitte-Uboma, Imo state Polytechnic, Umunakanu, Ehime Mbano, plus employments, scholarships and empowerment skills to youths too numerous to mention.
With these laudable achievements to the credit of the former Imo Assembly Speaker to his people, we now ask: what is Emeka Ihedioha's shameless stake in Okigwe zone? Has he suddenly remembered Okigwe people shortly after squandering a respected office such as the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, which is number six in the order of protocol in the country?
Ihedioha and PDP must know that we're keeping quiet does not necessarily mean that we did not discover their attempts to rig the election, which was resisted by the people. For their information, all the 15 electoral booths cancelled by INEC, are domiciled mostly in the strongholds of the APC.
If there is any atom of truth in their beer parlor comments regarding manipulations in the election, why was the humongous number of votes clandestinely padded by Achonu and his undemocratic agents in Ehime Mbano wilfully accepted by INEC despite stiff opposition by our party agents?
Did Ihedioha and his beleaguered PDP also know that teargas canisters was fired at our candidate at the zonal collation centre at Okigwe by the security agents while trying to gain access to the centre which incidentally played host to his opponent, Athan Achonu?
These are pertinent questions the people who are afraid of defeat should find answers to before jumping into making sweeping and baseless statements.
They have continued to whip up public sentiments, while throwing tantrums on the electoral umpire for discharging its duties without fear or favour. If INEC was biased as they make us believe, it should have declared the APC candidate winner in line with the clear margin of lead, which is reminiscent to the Abia North re-run and Bayelsa guber respectively.
For the bookmakers, the supplementary election scheduled for Thursday, 28 July in the affected 15 polling units is yet another test case which will afford the political doubting Thomases the opportunity to come forward, monitor and get the first hand information of who is actually on ground and who is not.
The moment these harbingers of falsehood know that Okigwe zone has moved on in their collective affirmation of the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu to represent them in the Senate, the better for them.
Mr. Chukwuemeka Ahaneku
Director Media and Publicity, BUCO
CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION
ATT: IMO NORTH SENATORIAL RE-RUN
Our attention has been drawn to a potpourri of cynical, contrived and jaundiced reports, being prominently sponsored in the various platforms of the media by some select members of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, regarding the outcome of last Saturday's Imo North senatorial re-run election between Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu of the APC and his PDP counterpart, Chief Athan Achonu.
In some of the mendacious reports, PDP chieftains like its defeated governorship candidate in the 2015 gubernatorial election in the state, Emeka Ihedioha, was alleged to have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to return the PDP candidate as the winner of the yet-to-be concluded election, citing negative conspiracy by the ruling APC to thwart what he called the 'wishes' of the people.
As a focused campaign organization, it might be out of place to dignify Ihedioha and his co-travelers with a comment, going by the fact that they are still leaking the sour taste of defeat encountered during last year's gubernatorial election in the state.
It is highly unconscionable and a total slap on the sensibility of Ndi-Okigwe zone for the Ihedioha’s faction of the PDP, in their defeatist mentality, to condemn one the most peaceful and credible elections ever conducted in the history of the country. With the transparent process of the entire exercise, the party can now see what it takes for the wishes of the masses to be respected.
Ihedioha and his defeated cohorts must be reminded that Okigwe zone collectively voted CHANGE from impunity to real respect and regard for the rule of law, as well as from under-development to rapid zonal development. He must be told in unequivocal terms that Okigwe is never Mbaise where three local government areas wanted to outnumber the entire Imo state.
Maybe they have forgotten, Okigwe people voted for historic change, over "wawa dominance" and light over darkness, as can be seen in the numerous life-changing infrastructures and amenities, attracted by the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu's four year speakership stint at the Imo state House of Assembly.
For want of clarification, some of them include: over 15kms of rural roads in each of the six LGAs that make up the zone. The Okigwe urban renewal project, Obowo Malaysian International market, general hospitals and a stadium. Others are: the Imo state College of Education, Ihitte-Uboma, Imo state Polytechnic, Umunakanu, Ehime Mbano, plus employments, scholarships and empowerment skills to youths too numerous to mention.
With these laudable achievements to the credit of the former Imo Assembly Speaker to his people, we now ask: what is Emeka Ihedioha's shameless stake in Okigwe zone? Has he suddenly remembered Okigwe people shortly after squandering a respected office such as the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, which is number six in the order of protocol in the country?
Ihedioha and PDP must know that we're keeping quiet does not necessarily mean that we did not discover their attempts to rig the election, which was resisted by the people. For their information, all the 15 electoral booths cancelled by INEC, are domiciled mostly in the strongholds of the APC.
If there is any atom of truth in their beer parlor comments regarding manipulations in the election, why was the humongous number of votes clandestinely padded by Achonu and his undemocratic agents in Ehime Mbano wilfully accepted by INEC despite stiff opposition by our party agents?
Did Ihedioha and his beleaguered PDP also know that teargas canisters was fired at our candidate at the zonal collation centre at Okigwe by the security agents while trying to gain access to the centre which incidentally played host to his opponent, Athan Achonu?
These are pertinent questions the people who are afraid of defeat should find answers to before jumping into making sweeping and baseless statements.
They have continued to whip up public sentiments, while throwing tantrums on the electoral umpire for discharging its duties without fear or favour. If INEC was biased as they make us believe, it should have declared the APC candidate winner in line with the clear margin of lead, which is reminiscent to the Abia North re-run and Bayelsa guber respectively.
For the bookmakers, the supplementary election scheduled for Thursday, 28 July in the affected 15 polling units is yet another test case which will afford the political doubting Thomases the opportunity to come forward, monitor and get the first hand information of who is actually on ground and who is not.
The moment these harbingers of falsehood know that Okigwe zone has moved on in their collective affirmation of the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu to represent them in the Senate, the better for them.
Mr. Chukwuemeka Ahaneku
Director Media and Publicity, BUCO
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