Imo
State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has continued to lament the refusal of the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to issue him his certificate of
return as Senator-Elect for the Imo West Senatorial district election.
Okorocha also went further to urge INEC to release his
certificate of return so the issue will not cause any political problem for
Nigeria in the future.
Recall that Okorocha had a couple of days said the
electoral umpire was planning a “special ceremony” to issue him certificate of
return after it presented certificates of return to elected federal lawmakers
and he was not among.
INEC had refused to issue Okorocha his certificate of
return after it alleged that the governor influenced the Resident Electoral
Commissioner, REC by making him to declare a winner “under duress”
“If you look at our website, we said that the declaration
and return were made under duress and that we are not going to give any
certificate to any person or any individual that procured a return under
duress,” INEC had said.
The Commission also stressed that no candidate including
Okorocha will be given certificate of return.
Okorocha while begging INEC to do the needful during a
parley with newsmen at the government house in Owerri, on Tuesday, said he
cannot fathom why INEC will chose to deny him his certificate of return due to
a mere allegation.
He said; “I cannot understand how a mere allegation of
somebody, an individual, talking about duress, which has not been proven by
anybody, will stop INEC from giving me my certificate of return for an election
that I won properly.
“I cannot understand
why an individual’s report of a professor who lied, will now be taken more than
the report by the Nigeria Police, State Security Service, that said there was
no crisis, everything was peaceful. The returning officer should be called to
order.”
Okorocha also went
further to urge INEC to release his certificate of return so the issue will not
cause any political problem for Nigeria in the future.
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