The Labour Party, LP, the African Democratic Party, ADP and the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP candidates have rejected the declaration of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Akarachi Amadi, as the winner of the supplementary election held in Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru federal of Imo state on Saturday.
According to reports, the Opposition candidates believe that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has been compromised.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission compromised the poll in favor of the APC candidate”, states Chinonso Uba, candidate for ADC.
He also alleged that they also got the help of security agents and thugs allegedly recruited by the APC to rig the election.
Uba therefore declared himself the true hero of the election and said that the figures announced by the INEC were not a true representation of the votes cast by the electorate.
Uche Ogbuagu, the Labour Party candidate, accused INEC of bypassing the Bi-Modal Voters Accreditation Machine System and allocating votes to the APC candidate.
Ogbuagu, who had a margin of lead of 5,058 votes before the supplementary election, said that the APC candidate was hijacking the electoral materials and the INEC officials with the aid of security agents.
The PDP candidate Osmond Ukanacho also stated that he would challenge the outcome of the election at the Tribunal.
Ukanacho said, “We are not accepting the outcome of the election. It was massively rigged in favor of the APC candidate. We are heading to the Tribunal.”
The Returning officer for the election, Prof Boniface Okoro, had on Sunday night declared the APC candidate, Akarachi Amadi the winner of the election with the highest number of votes of 21, 372 votes with his closest rival, Ogbuagu, of the LP polling 18, 296 votes.