By Disun Amosun
Member representing Ohaji/Egbaman/Oguta/Oru West Federal Constituency, Imo State, at the House of Representatives, Rep Uju Kingsley has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to cancel the purported Presidential/NASS election claimed to have been held in the area last Saturday, claiming outright killings, intimidations and blatant falsification of results seriously marred and prevented the exercise from holding.
The incumbent lawmaker who re-contested the seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP described the whole exercise as a charade, as his teeming supporters were targeted and prevented from participating in the polls by unknown agents suspected to have been organized for that purpose by the Imo State Government.
Rep Uju Kingsley who briefed the press in Abuja called on the government at the center to investigate the role of the Imo State Government and its agents in the general atmosphere of insecurity, killings and maiming unleashed on his supporters in his stronghold.
According to the lawmaker “the series of mayhem sponsored by top officials of the state government and perpetrated through the notorious SARS Commander, Egbema, Inspector Chikadubia Akuabata alias “kill and bury” achieved the aim of infusing fears on the electorate, who scampered for safety rather than risk their lives to come out and vote at the Saturday polls.”
“Election did not hold at Azi, Ohakpu, Ibiasogbe, Ozara, Amafuo and Nnempi wards in Oru West Local Government Area, while in Oguta and Ohaji/Egbema LGAs, the same scenario played out in Ndulukwu/Nwowere, Obudu, Mgbala, Nworie and Ohoba wards in both Oguta and Ohaji/Egbema LGAs all within the fed constituency”, he said.
In calling for the cancellation of the non-existent elections claimed to have been held in the affected areas, Rep Uju Kingsley alleged that fake results were written by compromised INEC officials in collaboration with identified state agents and such manufactured results sent through the proper channel for collation.
