Rerun: Rivers PDP rejects disqualification it's candidate...

 

'Felix Obuah'

THE Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the disqualification of its candidate for the Akuku-Toru Constituency II rerun, Tonye Alalibo.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had on Tuesday stated that Alalibo was disqualified based on the judgment of the Election Petitions Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

But the Chairman of the PDP in the state, Chief Felix Obuah, rejected INEC’s explanation for  Alalibo’s disqualification.

Obuah, who spoke through a statement  by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Jerry Needam,  said  the election tribunal, appeal court and  INEC had no powers to disqualify any candidate fielded by a political party.

According  the Electoral Act did not give INEC, the election tribunal and  the appeal court the power to disqualify any candidate presented by a political party.

Obuah also rejected  the alleged ceding of result of the  Opobo/Nkoro  House of  Assembly election to the APC, adding that the results collated from the polling units in all the wards  had shown that  Mr. Diri Adonye of the PDP was the  winner.

Obuah, however, congratulated  his party’s  candidates, who emerged victorious following  the results so far  declared by  INEC.