The
senator representing Rivers South East senatorial district in the
National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe has denied an allegation by the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he induced pastors and traditional
rulers in Ogoni to petition the State Election Tribunal.
The PDP,
had in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by its state chairman, Chief
Felix Obuah, alleged that the senator was offering some pastors and
chiefs of Ogoni huge sums of money as an inducement to petition to the
State Election Tribunal that no elections took place in Ogoniland.
Reacting, the All Progressives Congress (APC) member described the allegation as a figment of Obuah’s imagination.
A
statement signed on his behalf by Honour Sirawoo, head, Media and
Publicity of the Abe Campaign Organization (ACO), observed that the
senator or his associates do not need to induce already aggrieved voters
to testify as witnesses over a concocted exercise that did not allow
them choose their representatives.
It reads: “Abe is a serving
Senator representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, so
could meet with his constituents whenever the need arises.
“The
Senator or his associates do not need to induce already aggrieved voters
to testify as witnesses over a concocted exercise that did not allow
them choose their representative.
“We are shocked that Obuah was
jubilating over a purported election independent bodies across the world
have unanimously condemned.
“Did
Senator Abe also bribe the European Union, United Nations, United
States Embassy, Domestic and International Observers that described the
exercise as a charade and rape of democracy?
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