From Everest Ezihe, Owerri
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Gubernatorial Campaign Council in Imo State says it has uncovered a plot by All Progressive Congress (APC) under the leadership of Governor Hope Uzodimma to legalize vote buying in the November 11th governorship election in the State.
The council levelled this allegation in a press statement issued by Dr. Ikenna Onuoha, the Director, Media and Publicity of Imo PDP (Sam-Jones) Gubernatorial Campaign Council.
According to the release, “Uzodimma is said to have delegated members of APC to incessantly bombard Imo people with unsolicited phone calls, begging for votes and promising to financially reward them for each vote cast for APC.
“It is shameful that Uzodimma is going about begging for the votes of Imo people after he (allegedly) flagrantly ignored them and instead, introduced harsh and obnoxious policies that are detrimental to their welfare ” they allegedly stated.
The opposition campaign council further said that they are querying Uzodinma’s morality in soliciting votes from Imo people, alleging that it is clear to him that his political future is in serious danger.
It also alleged that Uzodinma and his supporters had boasted that the November 11 Governorship election would be a “walk-over”, stressing that they are “believing that their usual rigging mechanism would work”.
The statement further observed that the question now is, “if Uzodinma and APC are convinced that the election would be a walk-over for them, why then are they going about begging, and spending airtime bombarding the phone numbers of aggrieved Imo people without authorization?” they allegedly maintained.
The PDP (Sam-Jones) Gubernatorial Campaign Council further enjoined Governor Uzodinma and his APC administration to allegedly stop embarrassing themselves by going beggarly, having been allegedly accused of failure to apologize to Imo people for allegedly harassing, intimidating and molesting them at no provocation.
The Sam-Jones Campaign team therefore calls on Imo people to ignore any unsolicited phone calls from the APC government to allegedly avoid exposing their privacies to hackers who they said are desperate to retain power, informing also that security agencies have been briefed to fish out those behind this dastardly act and deal ruthlessly to serve as deterrent to others.
