Igini: My APC Accusers Also Attacked Me While In PDP

The Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini has dismissed the petition raised against him by the All Progressives Congress, APC saying that the petitioners were previous members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who lack democratic values and identify with whatever ruling party to enable them rig elections.

He spoke in reaction to the petition articulated by the APC South-South zone upon actions taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as regarding the APC in Akwa Ibom.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the APC had in the petition received by INEC on July 3 given the commission 48 hours to sack Igini. However, the commission may have rebuffed the petition and sustained Igini in his position.

The petition was signed by APC Zonal Organizing Secretary, South-South, Dr. Blessing Agbomhere.

In his reaction, Igini said; “The petitioner was in the PDP. The first place I worked was Cross River and I witnessed the arrogance of power of the then ruling PDP in 2911. They didn’t conduct their primaries when they said they did and the electoral officers wrote their report which I endorsed and on which basis, Prof Jega, then INEC Chairman acted on. They protested and President Jonathan told them to keep quiet that he brought Jega to sanitize the system. The CPC which was then the party of now President Buhari won an election and Tinubu’s ACN also won Obubra. Blessing was in the PDP then and rget accused me of being a member of the ACN.

“In 2015 when I was deployed to Edo, the arrogance of power was also on display by some PDP elements except for respectable personalities like Chief Orbih and a few others. This Blessing, from Edo, was a PDP member and they were the ones who said they were going to use federal might. I told them the hallmark of democracy will be a peaceful transfer of power and that there will be no federal might. Edo was the only state in the South South where Buhari scored more than the required 25percent. He had 46 percent. APC got one senatorial seat and four out of nine federal seats and also controlled the state assembly. That is my record of absolute neutrality.

“All the characters you are seeing the APC today accusing me, were in the PDP and they went after us the sane arrogance is what they are displaying today because they carried that mentality to APC,” Igini said.

“Unfortunately, Nigeria is a country where there is no book of remembrance we cannot have a democracy without democrats. Where was this Blessing when gunmen invaded my house in Benin because I stood against the purported federal might? That same individual is now in the ruling party. I did same in 2014 in Osun. I did same thing in Anambra and in Imo when there was crisis and I was sent to intervene.

“In respect of Akwa Ibom, the former senator who is behind all these, all the period Buhari contested election, he never got 10 percent in this state. It was only when Mike Igini came the people’s votes began to count. Then they said I was brought here to dislodge the PDP. They have their internal problems. They have three factions. That is the foundational problem and not Mike Igini. You can buy some people all of the time but you cannot buy all the people all of the time.

“My records do not suggest anything they have said. Dishonest people are all over the place walking like colossus because we are in a country where our value pyramid is upside down.

“My only response is my record. All the people who are talking now were all members of the PDP,” Igini concluded.

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