You Can Change PDP's Burial Date But Cant Change The Burial....I Am The Winner! - Rochas Okorocha

Imo state governor,Rochas Okorocha has reacted bitterly after INEC declared the state's gubernatorial election inconclusive .

Yesterday,Returning Officer in Imo state, Prof. Ibidapo Obe,declared the election inconclusive because Mr. Okorocha's 79,529 margin against his rival Emeka Ihedioha of PDP was less than the 144,715 number of registered voters in wards

where elections did not hold or were cancelled.

While speaking to news men at the Government

House in Imo State today Monday,Okorocha said

“The electoral act has talked about registered

voters and in the workings of that act and in the

spirit of the law, you cannot not make use of

number of registered voters, you have to make use

of number of PVC collected.

“When you look at the number of PVC collected you

find out that there is no need for this

supplementary election because the number of PVC

collected will be less than the 79,000 votes

difference between me and the PDP candidate. But

now they are basing on the number of registered

voters. Number of registered voters do not cast the

vote; it is the number of PVC collected that does,”

You can only change the date of a burial but you

cannot change the burial. From the results

available, the fact speaks for itself, we have won

this election despite all the irregularities, I am the

winner”

“Let me say that there is no basis for comparison

when I’m told that I’m in contest with the PDP

candidate and he scored some votes it is not true.

I think I’m in contest with more unseen elements

than the candidate himself. If this election is

conducted in the way it should be conducted in a

free and fair manner, my opponent would have up

to 100,000 votes. Never. Not in Imo State; not at

all,”

“If you look at what has happened in his areas of

jurisdiction and his local government, Mbaise local

government, Ahiazu, Ezinnite, Aboh Mbaise, where

he gave himself almost 80,000 votes. Can you

imagine in Aboh Mbaise, you have 51,000 voters

when the actual PVC collected is about 60,000 and

in Mbaitoli where you have over 100,000 PVC

collected the total votes there is about 30,000 so

that tells you the manipulation. What we saw in

those areas was simply the militarisation of the

entire process – snatching of ballot boxes and

violence and what have you.

“But because of these manipulations and writing of

results and taking result sheets and going to

somebody’s house – escorted by security agencies-

to write the result and come in the private car to

INEC headquarters, that is why many people think

there is a contest. So I’m not in contest with that

gentle man, I’m in contest with the entire

manipulation of the system and the election,”