….vows to challenge defeat in court.
The Governorship candidate of the Labour party who placed third in the just concluded election in Imo state, Senator Athan Achonu has accused the security agencies of colluding with the ruling party to manipulate the election in the state.
Speaking to newsmen in his country home in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state, Achonu alleged that his supporters were intimidated during the election at the polling units saying the outcome of the election does not reflect the true picture of what was registered at the point of voting.
Addressing newsmen in his country home in Ehime Mbano local government area of Imo state, the 64-year-old alleged his party supporters and voters were intimidated and harassed during the election as the outcome of the election doesn’t reflect what truly transpired at the polling units.
Achonu rejected the results of the election declaring the election as a very sad day for democracy, for good governance for freedom of choice and equal opportunity,”
“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 asked rhetorically.
Achonu threatened to challenge the process in court alleging that some of the results uploaded to the IReV portal did not correspond with the figures at the polling units arguing that the Returning officer should have stopped the process when a party agent drew attention to the anomalies.
