Uche Ogbuagu, Labour Party candidate for the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal constituency in Imo state, has faulted the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
On Sunday, INEC declared Akarachi Amadi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the federal constituency election.
Boniface Chidi Okoro, the returning officer, said Amadi polled a total of 21, 372 votes to beat the LP candidate who got 18, 296 votes.
Speaking with journalists, the LP candidate described the exercise as a “charade”.
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“Everyone knows that I won the election. I won in the first election with over 5000 votes and I still won in this supplementary election,” he alleged.
“How on earth will someone who has a leading margin of over 5000 in the main election lose a supplementary which had BVAS accredited voters that were less than the leading margin. This is laughable.
“Is it possible that the same Mbaike people who gave me over 17000 votes in the main election will abandon me at the supplementary? That’s not possible. My people overwhelmingly voted for me both at the main election and supplementary.
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“I only blame INEC for failing to do the right thing irrespective of the series of warnings and calls from Imo stakeholders. But I am not perturbed. I won and I must reclaim the mandate my people have given to me.”
The LP candidate also accused the APC of electoral violence while he described the outcome of the election as a “momentary setback which will never deter me from fulfilling my good intentions to the good people of Mbaike”.
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