IMO: APC alleges PDP spreading lies about election tribunal proceedings

Fresh trouble is brewing between the two main political parties in Imo State, the All Progressive Congress (APC), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over the on-going proceedings at the state governorship elections tribunal.

This time, the opposition APC is accusing the PDP of spreading falsehood about the proceedings at the governorship elections tribunal, alleging that the ruling PDP has been sponsoring advertorials and writers to churn out falsehood in the media.

According to Marcelenus Nlemigbo, the chairman of the state caretaker committee of the APC in a statement issued on Thursday, the PDP through the sponsored advertorials have been misrepresenting facts of proceedings at the tribunal to mislead the public.

He also accused the PDP of sponsoring a publication written by one Kennedy Eweama, wherein it alleged that the deputy commissioner of police who testified at the tribunal over the omitted results from 388 polling units did not get clearance from the police authorities before doing so.

Nlemigbo said: “We have all the facts about their meetings and their plans to use the media to spread falsehood to incite the public and blackmail the tribunal. Even the newspapers published everything that they are now playing out.

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“The PDP in Imo State has been attacking, not only the tribunal members, but the witnesses and litigants before them with a view to intimidating them.

“It is obvious from the utterances of the hired writers that PDP may be planning evil against the leadership of APC and our witnesses by inciting the public against the tribunal.

“It is easy to know that the party wants to unleash violence on APC members.

“We are, therefore, calling on the security agencies to take more than a passing interest in what is happening in Imo State to forestall a breakdown of law and order,” he added.

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