Barrister Uche Agbaeze Okocha, a Public Law Researcher who focuses on Constitutional and Administrative Law, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has faulted the authenticity of the viral video in circulation having the counting of voters during the just concluded presidential primary election in Abia State.
In the said video in circulation, the Deputy Speaker of the house of representative, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu is seen in his ward standing in cue to cast his vote as another party member, Chinasa Frank took the lead on the vote counting which has stirred up controversy about the accuracy of the counting process.
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Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Stanley Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero or negligible votes in several states.
In his submission about the election process, Uche described the Abia APC Primary election as “a resurgence of grassroot participation in democracy and internal democracy of the APC”.
Uche stated his position of the APC primary election during a live radio political program with Vision Africa Radio in Umuahia, Abia State on Monday.
In further submission about the controversial video in circulation and the credibility of the APC primary election, Uche added that the election process is “a demonstration of total compliance of equity, natural justice, good conscience and respect of the rule of law in the electoral guidelines of the Constitution of Nigeria”.
Uche also affirmed that he is yet to see the trending video citing any form of irregularities in the APC Presidential primary election.
“I haven’t seen the video, I wouldn’t know the source in which you got the video, what is important is the validity and truthfulness of what is in circulation.
“Where did you get the video? Did you get it from the APC agents? Did you get it from online because we are in the world of technology, things can be mutilated, you know about the AI and Deep seek. Today anybody can turn my voice to anything, so it is important that whatever we are relying on is evidence to canvas in any position and has validity”. Uche said.
On the question of possible litigation by an aggrieved member of the party who may have felt shortchanged during the entire primary election of the APC, Uche said it is vested on the aggrieved candidate to protest the outcome of the election. He faulted critics of the primary election process saying only an APC member has the legal standing to challenge the outcome of the election as APC has an internal mechanism to resolve issues before anyone can herd to court.
“It is a credible process which all of us witnessed, rather they mob up enthusiasm targeted at discrediting what APC has done. They are worried that APC conducted a peaceful primary election, I don’t know when last did this happen? this is a credible and transparent process. Nobody has gone to court from the just concluded APC primary election”. Uche said.
He rated the entire APC primary election process 8/10.
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