Prince Tonye Princewill is the governorship candidate
of the Labour Party, LP, in Rivers State.
After a closed door meeting
with all my local government representatives and an extended stakeholder
engagement within my party, it is our official position that the senate and
house of representative elections conducted on the 28th of March where largely
neither free nor fair and were not in accordance with laid down electoral
procedures. We will therefore be rejecting a large number of the national
assembly results we participated in. The evidence to buttress the tribunal
cases is now being collated and a team of 5 SANs, co-ordinated by the Rivers
State party chairman, Prince Favour Reuben is being deployed to ensure we
secure justice.
Our national assembly
candidates trusted that INEC and the security agencies would protect them and
provide for them a level playing field, but it was a surprise to see that not
only did they not do so, their processes and equipment left them exposed, disenfranchised
and ultimately short changed with results that clearly did not reflect the will
of their people. As law abiding citizens, we have vowed to challenge, to the
end, the injustices meted out to us through legal means and have no doubt that
in the end, justice will prevail.
As many now know, our party
supported the PDP candidate for President and so we have no doubt, his
overwhelming victory in Rivers state is inevitable. We demonstrated our
political maturity in working with PDP, other parties and indeed even APC
faithful in voting for him in a peaceful and orderly fashion. Aside from being
our son, we believe he has not only done well, he has earned all our support.
We only pray that our collective efforts are enough to lead him on to a
national victory. For us it was never about the party, it was always about the
person.
I would like to add that it
is particularly ironic to find ourselves in the same boat as the leadership of
the APC in the Rivers state, complaining about the conduct of an election when
the same actors in the APC have been the same executors of similar injustices
in the past. "He without sin should cast the first stone." What goes
around clearly comes around and I hope this will serve as a lesson for us all,
including the PDP. In the end, power is simply transient and there are powers
above powers. Justice comes in many forms.
Signed
Prince Tonye T.J.T
Princewill
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