{"id":27217,"date":"2020-02-05T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27217"},"modified":"2020-02-05T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:10:17","slug":"inec-challenges-imo-governor-over-allegations-against-workers-as-pdp-accuses-apc-of-attempt-to-influence-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27217","title":{"rendered":"INEC Challenges Imo Governor Over Allegations Against Workers .As PDP Accuses APC of Attempt To Influence Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=27220\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/inec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/inec.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/inec-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Tunji Adedeji<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Worried by Senator Hope Uzodinma, Imo State Governor&#8217;s statement that has gone viral on social media, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has challenged the fair skinned governor to make himself clear on the claim that INEC senior Staff in the Southeast are all card carrying members of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Commission in a statement issued by the INEC National Chairman spokesperson, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said Gov Uzodinma&#8221;s aspersions on the Commission cannot stop it from doing the right thing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Chief Press Secretary averred that casting aspersions on the Commission cannot deter it from doing the right thing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Recall that Imo State Governor had while explaining the grounds on which he approached the Supreme Court, accused INEC of deliberately excluding his votes because it was working for the PDP candidate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The governor said, \u201call we are asking is that INEC should remain neutral especially in the Southeast.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">All INEC senior Staff in the Southeast are obviously PDP carrying members to the extent that once a result is not in the favour of the PDP, it will go all out to upturn the result\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It will be recalled that the Imo governor, a two time Senator was a member of the PDP until late 2018 when he decamped to the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">But the Commission in the response noted that, \u201cit is quite surprising that Mr Hope Uzodinma is affirming that all INEC senior staff in the South East are card carrying members of a political party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHow did he come to that conclusion? The Commission will be grateful if he could supply the INEC headquarters with the compelling proof of that allegation so that action can be taken\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It added that, \u201chowever, Nigerians would have noticed that some politicians have now formed the habit of casting aspersions on the Commission whenever we insist on the right thing. Notwithstanding, we will not be discouraged and we will not be deterred by these unwarranted attacks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Commission will continue to discharge its constitutional responsibilities without fear and favour. We are surprised that he could make such allegation. \u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunji Adedeji Worried by Senator Hope Uzodinma, Imo State Governor&#8217;s statement that has gone viral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27221,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions\/27221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}