- Says Election Outcome A ‘Travesty’
- Insists ‘Justice will be obtained affirmatively’
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka has vowed that the party will pursue justice to ensure they retrieve the peoples’ mandate given to the Delta State governorship candidate and Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege at the just-concluded guber poll.
Morka while rejecting the results of the Delta State gubernatorial election held on 18 March, described the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a “travesty” and a pyrrhic victory for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori, saying the results will be overturned by the sheer weight of evidence against it as he cautioned that “the music has not stopped,” over the poll outcome in Delta.
The APC National Publicity Secretary who hails from Delta State said he was physically on the ground to monitor the process, adding that widespread infractions marred the Guber poll in Delta.
He also insisted that the APC will not accept the results and will pursue the mandate said to have been stolen from the party in the court “affirmatively”.
Morka stated this during an interview with Arise TV, monitored by The New Diplomat late Tuesday.
In his words: “Our candidate for the office of the governor, the deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, is a democrat. He knows what to do, and we know what to do. So we’re not going to come and saturate the web waves with protests and screams, but be rest assured that the music has not stopped in Delta it will play quietly, but affirmatively until I think Justice is obtain in Delta.”
It would be recalled that the candidate of the PDP, Sheriff Oborevwori, was on Monday, declared winner of the election by INEC.
According to INEC, PDP’s Oborevwori polled a total of 360,234 votes, while Omo-Agege of the APC scored 240,229 votes.
However, the APC campaign council said it has evidence that the process was characterised by irregularities and that the people of the state were denied the right to freely express their will.
Earlier, in a statement issued by the Director, Communications and Media Strategy of the council, Ima Niboro, the party had dismissed the result declared by INEC as it hinted that a massive legal battle is underway.
“We have an entire arsenal of evidence showing the disenfranchisement of the people, non use of, and tampering with BVAS machines, declaring double results at polling units, issuing of fake result sheets to agents and uploading cooked up results into the BVAS.
“We also have evidence of widespread vote suppression, voter intimidation, thuggery and violence against our supporters. The PDP was at its worst during the election: wickedly denying the people of their will freely expressed at the polls.”
Recall The New Diplomat had reported that the APC in a petition addressed to the INEC Returning Officer for Delta State Governorship 2023 Election, signed by the Director of Strategy, Mr. Godwin Anaughe, the party listed 19 Local Government Areas where their results were disputed.
The party also cited several sections of the Electoral Act 2022 that were allegedly breached by INEC and the PDP in the course of the election and while returning a winner.
