ACN Vows To Continue With Cases Against PDP

Despite mounting pressures on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Rivers State chapter and outside the state to drop its petitions and suits against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for various alleged electoral offences and rigging in the just concluded general and Local Government Council elections in the state, the party said it has resolved to pursue its cases to their logical conclusion.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in the State, Jerry Needam said this in a statement issued on behalf of the party in Port Harcourt.

The ACN spokesman said the statement has become necessary following moves and pressures to persuade the party to drop the petitions against the PDP at all levels in the state.

According to Jerry Needam, the ACN has overwhelming evidence to prove beyond all reasonable doubts that Amaechi and his allies flagrantly rigged the polls and did not win the elections as claimed.

The statement confirmed the alleged moves to engage the ACN in reconciliation talks over the alleged electoral excesses of the PDP by well meaning and respectable citizens across the country.

But the ACN Publicity Secretary said the refusal of the ACN to heed these appeals borders on principle and its quest for justice rather than being stubborn.

“There is every need to right these electoral anomalies for future generations no matter the enormous resources already committed to the project by our dear party. If this is the price we have to pay to get things work well as in other civilised societies, so be it. We are tired of having the wrong people in the right places which is obviously the reason why our state has been steadily backward in the last four years,” Jerry Needam regretted.

Although the party has refused to mention where the pressures are coming from, the ACN’s state Chairman, Uche Okwukwu and others dumped the party a few hours to the governorship election held on 26 April, asking their supporters to vote massively for Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi instead of the ACN candidate, Dr Abiye Sekibo.

By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt