The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last Saturday election in Enugu State, Ayogu Eze, has rejected the reelection of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
The APC governorship candidate insisted that the election was manipulated and failed to reflect the wishes of the people.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ugwuanyi winner of the Enugu State gubernatorial contest, having polled 449,935 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ayogu Eze, who scored 10,423 votes.
Eze had announced a boycott of the election after requesting a postponement that INEC rejected.
In his reaction on Monday, Okey Ezirigwe Director, Media Ayogu Eze Campaign Organisation, described the figures as ‘oven-baked’.
He said Eze’s name was not on the final list of governorship candidates published on the commission’s website after the Appeal Court cleared him to contest the poll on the eve of the exercise.
“Our supporters observed that while the card reader was supposed to have been programmed to stop functioning at 2pm, many polling centers remained open, up to as late as 5pm with massive thumb-printing going on, using multiple fingers and objects to mark the ballot papers.
“We are therefore calling on the people of Enugu State, all institutions and people of Nigeria not to only reject these forged figures described as governorship election results from an election that never took place in Enugu State, but to denounce the said election as a farce,” he said.
