You Should Be Facing Electoral Fraud, Coalition Tells Okorocha

A former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has been told that he should be in court facing electoral fraud during the last General Elections.

Coalition for the Advancement of Good Governance, CAGG, at a press briefing on Friday in Abuja, said claims by Okorocha that Governor Emeka Ihedioha did not win his election as governor was farfetched as he (Okorocha) should be facing prosecution for impinging on the integrity of the last elections in the state.

“For a man that smuggled himself through the backdoor as senator to continue to impugn on the ability of the INEC to conduct free, fair and credible elections shows how low some people can go. What ‘Senator’ Okorocha has simply told Nigerians, we already know anyway, that he never won any elections,” James Okoronkwo, spokesperson of the CAGG said.

They further called on “the INEC to show example of all those who worked hard to discredit the last election such as ‘Senator’ Okorocha and prefer criminal electoral charges against them. The failure of the electoral body to do this greatly undermines its ability to deliver, free, fair and credible elections and gives electoral brigands the impetus to carry out their impunity against electoral officers such as suffered by the Returning Officer for the Imo West Senatorial Election, Professor Innocent Ibeawuchi.”

Okoronkwo stated that “‘Senator’ Rochas Okorocha is yet to come to terms with the fact that the good people of Imo state rejected his attempt to install his son-in-law and create an Okorocha Dynasty in an egalitarian state such as Imo. Since the former governor is full persuaded that His Excellency Governor Emeka Ihedioha did not win the election that brought him into office, he should simply have represented his son-in-law at the tribunals rather than engaging in this theatre of the absurd.

“Also, for a man that is under criminal investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the mindless plunder of Imo State, he should be rather beg Imolites for their forgiveness and make restitutions for his crimes against today and posterity of Imo state.”

The CAGG spokesperson urged Governor Ihedioha not to relent in repositioning the state, restore confidence of Imolites that have been lost, recover all stolen properties of the state from officials and family members of the past regime as well as stay focused on his service to the state.

The coalition is made up of Peoples Alliance for Indigenous Rights, Network for Transparency, NET, and Society for Equity and Inclusion, SEI.