Politics
By Tennyson Sampson
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Committee in Anambra State say that their attention have been drawn to a publication in the public space wherein the purveyors of fake news alleged that Ndubisi Nwobu claimed that Peter Obi rigged the presidential election in Anambra State at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Court.
In a statement signed by Uloka Chibuike, Deputy Director Media and Publicity, Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Committee Anambra State, the group described the publication as not only falsehood, wickedness, and devilishness, but also a deliberate attempt by a few innuendos to discredit and blackmail Nwobu’s person.
“We wish to state unequivocally and for the record that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not file a petition against the Labour Party, nor did the PDP name the Labour Party as a respondent in her suits at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Court; rather, our petitions are against the All Progressives Congress Party, APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
“Nwobu was at the Tribunal on the 7th day of June, 2023, as the 11th witness of Atiku Abubakar, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to testify against INEC’s refusal to adhere to its own election guidelines, which state that polling unit results are to be electronically transmitted with the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, directly and in real-time to the IREV portal.
“Nwobu did not, by any means or disguise, state that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, ‘rigged’ the presidential election in Anambra State or anywhere else.
“The Tribunal went further to ask Nwobu, who won the election in Anambra State; he responded explicitly that the Labour Party won the presidential election in the state and that his party is not in court with the Labour Party, but with INEC, having reneged on her own guidelines.
“While we call on unsuspecting members of the public to kindly disregard the fake news that Ndubisi Nwobu accused Peter Obi of rigging the presidential elections in Anambra State, we also wish to warn online bloggers against patronizing stories with sensational headlines without proper investigations, as expected by journalists and all news merchants.
“The PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, are determined to present all evidence against INEC and the All Progressives Congress party to convince the Presidential Election Petition Court that the mandate willingly given to Atiku Abubakar by the majority of Nigerians was wrongly appropriated and that such matters must be addressed to retrieve the mandate from the APC,” the statement said.
It urged those wishing to divert attention, frame and defame innocent individuals should desist or face the consequences of their actions.
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