One of the members of the electoral committee sent by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to conduct ward congresses in Cross Rivers State, Senator Emma Anosike, has stated that the exercise was free and fair from the beginning to the point of submission of results in Abuja.
Anosike said while speaking to newsmen in Abuja yesterday that even the secretary of Cross Rivers PDP was among the people who delivered the results to the party’s headquarters in Wadata House, Abuja.
He expressed surprise that no objection was made by him after the exercise and wondered why the discontent of the results were cropping from.
“At 6 am on the 2nd of November as we were returning to Abuja, we were surprised to see the secretary of the Akwa Ibom PDP who said he was going to Abuja with us. We felt slighted but took it like that.
He was with us from there to the party headquarters where we went straight from the airport to submit the report.
I was surprised when I saw him on Kaakaki on AIT saying I did some things. I did not want to respond to these issues, many people have been asking me to talk but I refused but this is has gone too far,” he stated.
He also explained that on the eve of the congresses, lawmakers from the House of Representatives and the Senate had come to express displeasure that the results coming from the field were not favouring them, while saying they were suspicious that some underhand dealing must have taken place.
The senator said an attempt to table the lawmakers’ grievance before the chairman of Akwa Ibom PDP Ntufam John Okon was shoved off by him, saying “he doesn’t have time for that.”
He also wondered why the option of a three man appeal committee which was on ground to receive petitions against the exercise was not explored by the secretary instead of his resort to “name-calling.”
“The governor of Cross River and his team should go and put his house in order,” he concluded.
