Delta 2015 Election Results: Apc Legal Team Heading For The Tribunal To Challenge Senator Okowa’s Victory.

By FRED OGHENESIVBE

Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has finalized arrangements with a team of legal experts to challenge the results of the April 11 Governorship elections in the State. The team comprising of constitutional lawyers and senior legal practitioners versed in election related matters have vowed to use the legal means to nullify the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

APC governorship candidate, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor in a statement by his Director of Media and Political Communication, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the elections so as to use Delta State financial resources and the party structure contacts in the judiciary to frustrate and/or pervert the course of justice, after its candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa assume office on May 29.

He asserted that the “open rigging” of the PDP is so glaring that the APC legal team will be able to get judgment by relying on the number of accredited voters captured by the card readers as well as video clips of certain persons including INEC agents caught on video thumb printing ballot papers in favour of PDP and Labour Party, respectively.

Oghenesivbe quoted Emerhor as saying that the people of Delta State voted for Buhari during the Presidential elections and also voted for the APC and its governorship candidate on April 11 but that the PDP through highly sophisticated election rigging strategies including vote-buying suppressed the electorates decision at the polls, adding that PDP was able to succeed to a large extent because of its criminal collaboration with some corrupt INEC officials who helped in thumb printing and election results falsification.

The Buhari administration will ensure that the riggers will not have people in the judiciary to bribe so as to run away with the true verdict of the good people of Delta State; we are optimistic that Okowa's days in Government House will be short-lived, the statement added.