Sharp criticisms has come the way of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, over the Oguta re run election in four wards which produced Hon. Eugene Dibiagwu of the PDP as the winner of the election.
The INEC boss, was accused of reversing himself after nine commissioners in INEC had allegedly signed that no election took place in Oguta on May 6, 2011. In other words, there was no basis for a re run election in four wards that took place recently.
Making this disclosure in a press statement endorsed by the forum’s Chairman and Secretary respectively, Comrade Eze Duke and Obinna Akukwe, and made available to newsmen, a youth body, Imo Youths In Support of Democracy rejected the Oguta re run polls, describing it as a brazen rape of democracy
‘We are baffled at the summersault of INEC which had earlier declared that elections were inconclusive in about eleven wards in Oguta Local Government Area, a fact that was endorsed by its officials’ This is because, on the 6th of May, 2011, nine electoral commissioners of INEC signed and clearly endorsed their verdict that no elections took place in Oguta LGA and therefore called for a total rerun in the whole of Oguta Area’ the group declared.
They called the PDP Candidate, Eugene Dibiagwu to stop parading himself as winner of the election, alleging that other political parties boycotted the election, including market women and traders as they were seen going about their normal businesses and never participated in the election.
The PDP did not escape the fury of the youths, as they alleged that the party and some of its heavyweights were the hands of esau that manipulated INEC over the Oguta re run election, vowing to resist the machinations of the party and its cohorts.
They attributed the emergence of the Okorocha Administration on the massive support of the people, stating that ‘it is on record that Imo is the only State in the Federation where the youths came out enmasse to sacrifice for true democracy and ensured that the vote of the people counted hence the emergence of Owelle Rochas Okorocha’
