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BREAKING: Lawyers Jubilate As Labour Party’s Achonu Rejects Election Results, Heads To Court (DETAILS)

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BREAKING: Lawyers Jubilate As Labour Party’s Achonu Rejects Election Results, Heads To Court (DETAILS)

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The Labour Party’s Governorship candidate in the recently concluded Imo State Governorship election, Athan Achonu, has accused security operatives of colluding with the ruling All Progressives Congress to manipulate the results in the state.

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Achonu, who secured the third position with 64,081 votes, compared to Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party with 71,503 votes and the eventual winner, the incumbent governor Hope Uzodimma, who clinched victory with a substantial vote tally of 540,308, voiced his concerns during a press briefing in his hometown in Ehime Mbano local government area of Imo State.

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The 64-year-old politician alleged that his party supporters and voters were intimidated and harassed during the election, asserting that the outcome did not accurately reflect what truly transpired at the polling units.

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It is a very sad day for democracy, for good governance for freedom of choice and equal opportunity,” he said.

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“Yesterday security agencies of this country raped our democracy. It was a big shock, I am just recovering from it this morning.

“The DSS, Police and the military raped our democracy it was like a coup by the security agencies, it wasn’t INEC.”

“INEC was scared, they brought people from different states of the country and when they came they were willing to work. But when you see the security agents that are supposed to protect you where they behead people like chickens and are doing the bidding of the government, what do you do?

He contended that the Returning Officer should have halted the collation process after receiving a petition from his party agent. The petition highlighted discrepancies between the results uploaded to the IREV and those presented by the collation officers at the state collation centre. He vowed to contest the election outcome in court.

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