Wednesday, December 10, 2014
"Fundamentally and Fatally Fawed!" Senate Leader, Ndoma-Egba Appeals Loss At Primaries
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Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has appealed the result of the Cross River Central senatorial primary election conducted on Sunday, citing irregularities in the poll.
Ndoma-Egba polled 37 votes while the winner, John Enoh, scored 217 votes, according to the results announced by the handlers of the primary.
But the senate leader, in his letter dated December 8 and addressed to the Peoples Democratic Party National Assembly Electoral Appeal Panel in the state, noted that the primary was fraught with irregularities and flouted the electoral laws which he said were supposed to guide the primary.
The letter read in part, "The exercise was fundamentally and fatally flawed as it fell short of the minimum integrity for an electoral process. The exercise was in complete disregard of the PDP's guidelines for primary election.
"The list of delegates used for the primaries was not made public. This was imperative as two lists were in circulation."
On the accreditation process, Ndoma-Egba alleged that the Chairman of Etung Local Government, Dr. Inok Ebak; the Chairman of the PDP in Etung, Chris Mbu Ogar; and other unidentified Etung indigenes hijacked the whole accreditation process.
He alleged that they brandished a delegate's list which was not made public.
He said, "My agent, Ernest Irek, protested vehemently but he was shouted down. My agent tried to impress it on them that there was a list that had INEC approval but they resisted.
"My agent drew their attention to section 28 (c) of the PDP's guidelines, which explicitly states that the number of delegates accredited shall be publicly announced and entered on the appropriate form designed for that purpose before commencement of the election.
"This was not done. This provision of the guidelines is mandatory. There was unprecedented violence in the senatorial district primary, and militants had been imported from outside the state and had killed one Friday Ajaghe in Obubra Local Government Area the day before.
"The whole area had become so militarised that delegates were outnumbered by gunmen."
Ndoma-Egba faulted the announcement of Mark Egbe as a candidate in the poll.
He said, "Given these, I totally reject the outcome of the purported primaries for the district and therefore, pray this distinguished panel to cancel the primaries.
"I trust you to give this appeal your dispassionate consideration in the interest of justice, the sanctity of the electoral process and our democracy."
Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has appealed the result of the Cross River Central senatorial primary election conducted on Sunday, citing irregularities in the poll.
Ndoma-Egba polled 37 votes while the winner, John Enoh, scored 217 votes, according to the results announced by the handlers of the primary.
But the senate leader, in his letter dated December 8 and addressed to the Peoples Democratic Party National Assembly Electoral Appeal Panel in the state, noted that the primary was fraught with irregularities and flouted the electoral laws which he said were supposed to guide the primary.
The letter read in part, "The exercise was fundamentally and fatally flawed as it fell short of the minimum integrity for an electoral process. The exercise was in complete disregard of the PDP's guidelines for primary election.
"The list of delegates used for the primaries was not made public. This was imperative as two lists were in circulation."
On the accreditation process, Ndoma-Egba alleged that the Chairman of Etung Local Government, Dr. Inok Ebak; the Chairman of the PDP in Etung, Chris Mbu Ogar; and other unidentified Etung indigenes hijacked the whole accreditation process.
He alleged that they brandished a delegate's list which was not made public.
He said, "My agent, Ernest Irek, protested vehemently but he was shouted down. My agent tried to impress it on them that there was a list that had INEC approval but they resisted.
"My agent drew their attention to section 28 (c) of the PDP's guidelines, which explicitly states that the number of delegates accredited shall be publicly announced and entered on the appropriate form designed for that purpose before commencement of the election.
"This was not done. This provision of the guidelines is mandatory. There was unprecedented violence in the senatorial district primary, and militants had been imported from outside the state and had killed one Friday Ajaghe in Obubra Local Government Area the day before.
"The whole area had become so militarised that delegates were outnumbered by gunmen."
Ndoma-Egba faulted the announcement of Mark Egbe as a candidate in the poll.
He said, "Given these, I totally reject the outcome of the purported primaries for the district and therefore, pray this distinguished panel to cancel the primaries.
"I trust you to give this appeal your dispassionate consideration in the interest of justice, the sanctity of the electoral process and our democracy."
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