Accord Party threatens legal action against PDP over Edo LG by-election result

Accord Party threatens legal action
against PDP over Edo LG by-election
result
on october 27, 2013 at 8:30 pm in news
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM
BENIN—THE National leadership of Accord Party,
AP, has described as illegal, the result allegedly
announced by the leadership of Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, in Edo State, as the authentic result of
the just concluded Esan North-East Local
Government election, describing same as fake. It,
therefore, threatened to drag the party to court.
The party, which participated in the election,
accused the PDP of distorting the number of votes
polled by its candidate during the election, regretting
that ‘’ rather than misinform and deceive the public,
the PDP should have conceded defeat or gone to
court.”
In a communiqué after an emergency meeting of the
party in Benin City, by the National Secretary of the
AP, Dr. Samson Isibor, it frowned at what it
described as the alleged use of Mobile Policemen
from Lagos and Abuja to manipulate the election in
favour of the PDP, and regretted that “even after
their efforts to rig failed, the Chairman of the party
in the state, Chief Orbih, went on to announce and
publish fake results as if he was the Chairman of
Edo State Independent National Electoral
Commission, EDSIEC, that conducted the election.
“It is the duty of the electoral body (EDSIEC) to
conduct the local government election, declare the
results and announce winner. In the light of the
foregoing, Accord Party has, therefore, resolved to
take PDP, Edo State chapter, to court over the
misleading and fake parallel results it purportedly
declared.
“Accord Party frowns at some Abuja-based
politicians loyal to the opposition party who
converged on Uromi, the administrative local
government headquarters of Esan North- East Local
Government Area of Edo State, during the election
with a barrage of armed policemen from Abuja and
Lagos State, to intimidate defenceless voters at
some poling units.
“These Abuja politicians were said to have also held
hostage some presiding officers who were
reportedly threatened to announce fake results in
favour of the PDP candidate. The PDP should not
cause tension in the state in order not to disrupt the
democratic dividends we have been enjoying in Edo
State. We advise them to go to court and contest
the result of the election as we are contesting
Orbih’s announcement of result as if he is now the
EDSIEC Chairman.,” it stated.