…Orders Fresh Election In The Area
…As Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro Obuah Hails The Judgement, Says It Has
Restored The Hope Of Tai People
The Chairman, Rivers State
chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro Felix Obuah has commended the
judgement of the Federal High Court
sitting in Port Harcourt Tuesday, December 6, 2016, which ordered the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to include Tai Local Government
Area among the six LGAs where re-run legislative elections will be conducted on
Saturday, December 10.
Bro Obuah in a statement
while reacting to the court judgement that the March 19, re-run election in Tai
which was suspended mid-way by the electoral umpire was officially approved and
binding, and that it would be illegal, illegitimate and morally wrong for the
same INEC to want to release election results either in whole or parts from
same election earlier suspended, said it has restored the hope of the people of
Tai and South East Senatorial District.
He totally agreed to the
court reasoning that attempting to declare the suspended Tai result would be
tantamount to double standard by INEC who ab-initio created the confusion.
The State PDP Chairman also
gave kudos on the order by the court that no results in whatever form emanating
from the suspended March 19 Tai re-run election should be declared by INEC,
stressing that the only acceptable re-run election in the area is the expected
December 10, polls.
It would be recalled that
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had approached the court to compel the INEC
not to declare any results from the suspended March 19, re-run election in Tai
LGA against the backdrop that the electoral body attempted to release some of
the results against its own order.
Bro Obuah said the court
judgement has restored the hope of the people of South East Senatorial
District, describing the attempt by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to get
away with victory through the backdoor as a shame and failed mission.
Signed
Jerry Needam
Special
adviser on media and publicity
To the Rivers
PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
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