Umeh Submits Petition to Election Tribunal Wants Buhari to Probe 2015 Elections In S/East

APGA senatorial candidate for Anambra-central senatorial zone in the just concluded national assembly elections Chief Victor Umeh has charged the president-elect Gen.Mohammadu Buhari to probe the conduct of the 2015 elections in south-eastern Nigeria .

 

Umeh who apparently faulted the conduct of the 2015 elections in the south-east geo-political zone , said that the president-elect upon assumption of office should  set machinery in motion to investigate the electoral process stressing that it was already national knowledge that the 2015 elections in the south-east was a charade .

Umeh who spoke to journalists at the judiciary headquarters Awka at the weekend after filing his petition at the election tribunal challenging what he described as fraudulent declaration of Hon.Uche Lilian Ekwunife as winner of the March 28 , 2015 senatorial election in Anambra-central , stated that Gen.Mohammadu Buhari should probe the role played by INEC officials and security agencies in the conduct of the election with a view to purnishing those found culpable as well as make subsequent elections in the south-east be like elections in the south-west and northern Nigeria respectively .

 

The APGA national chairman also admonished the president-elect to vigorously pursue electoral reforms in the country to enable the country have credible elections henceforth for the sustenance of democracy and fair-play . He therefore emphasized that the electoral reforms must not be partial as evident in the out-going administration but a full-scale electoral reform for Nigeria .

 

Furthermore Umeh told journalists that he was at the tribunal to formally file his petition challenging what he saw as fraudulent declaration of Hon.Uche Ekwunife as the winner of the senatorial election conducted on the 28 of March 2015 for Anambra-central senatorial district . He explained that he filed 21copies of the petitions adding that the commencement of his litigation process showed that he has done the needful and not resorting to brigandage to obtain justice .

 

Although he stated pointblank that he was not desperate to be a senator but decided to embark on the court process so as not to dissappoint the voters of Anambra-central who voted massively for him and he won the election . Apart from that Umeh said he was  resolute to preserve , protect due process and democratic tennets and equally protect his party that has been a victim of electoral fraud over the years .

'I am convinced that if the judiciary rises to the occasion , justice will be done to all of us " stressing that he was not afraid of the judicial process in Nigeria as he has won all his cases in the last 12 years

ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA