By Tony Edike

ENUGU – GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in Enugu State, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, insisted yesterday that the April 16 presidential election in South-East and South-South states were allegedly rigged by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP through ballot stuffing, saying the CPC did not lose the election in the two geopolitical zones.

Reacting to the allegation by a group that the CPC lost the presidential election in the South East, “fair and square”, Okechukwu noted that the tremendous support the party received from the people of the two zones would have given its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, an edge over his opponents, if the votes were allowed to count.

He stated that “Forensic Test anchored on Biometric Technology will expose the jumbo allocation of votes to the PDP in the South East and South South, characterized by monumental ballot stuffing.”

According to him, the party is already assembling the evidence and will expose to the world “the hi-tech rigging which polluted the presidential election.”

He added that the party was not crying wolf where there was none and should not be regarded as “bad losers.”
“On Forensic Test and Biometric Technology, we intend to prove our case; not on propaganda,” the CPC governorship candidate declared.

On the assertion that intra-party crisis rocked the CPC’s electoral fortune in the South East, Okechukwu said:  “No major political party is free of intra-party crisis, I do not think that CPC’s fractionalization is worse than that of the PDP.”