APC Has Given INEC A 72-Hour Notice To Grant Access To Electoral Documents

The Rivers State branch of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has given the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) a notice demanding that it provide it with certain electoral documents in order to respond to petitions filed with the Elections Petitions Tribunal within the next 72 hours.
In Port Harcourt, the request was included in a statement that was distributed by Darlington Nwauju, who serves as the State Publicity Secretary.

Nwauju claimed that the commission’s office in the state had denied the party’s request to gain access to certain documents that were used for the election that had just taken place for the National Assembly.

The leader of the APC made the allegation that Mike Odeh, the head of operations for INEC in Rivers State, is conspiring with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to refuse the request made by the APC.

Nwauju, who compared Odeh’s actions to stealing, stated that the party’s 72-hour notice was for the headquarters of INEC to direct the state office to provide hit with the required documents requested. Nwauju also compared Odeh’s actions to stealing.

However, he warned that failure to comply would result in members of the party obstructing access to the commission’s headquarters in the state of Rivers.

Nwauju stated that “The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State had applied for the Certified True Copies of forms EC8A, EC8B, and EC8C and other documents incidental to the recently conducted National Assembly elections in the state in which results were mutilated and or forged in favor of the Peoples Democratic Party in areas where our party clearly won and our candidates should have been declared winners if INEC had kept its promise of uploading results from the polling units to the IReV

“Instructively, the said Head of Operations has consciously and viciously erected a wall to ensure that he frustrates the moves of the APC in Rivers State to retrieve the stolen mandates of our National Assembly candidates. This is in violation of both the civil service rules and the guidelines established by INEC, as well as the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 (as amended).”

“By refusing to release the relevant documents that were earlier listed, which are at the heart of prosecuting our petitions at the Elections Petitions Tribunal knowing full well that election petitions are time bound;” “By refusing to release the relevant documents that were previously listed;”

“We hereby issue a 72-hour notice to the headquarters of INEC to direct that these documents be released to the APC state chapter. If this request is not complied with, we shall be left with no other choice but to mount a blockade at the state office of INEC in Port Harcourt until our rights are granted as a political party,” the statement read. “We hereby issue a notice that these documents be released to the APC state chapter.”