A group, Old Bende Coalition for Good Goverce (OBCGG), has called on a former governor of Abia State and the senatorial candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) for Abia North in the March 28 election, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, to appeal the verdict of the National and States House of Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Umuahia.
The group pleaded with judges who would handle such appeal to be fair in their dealings.
Dr. Kalu had approached the tribunal against the declaration of Mao Ohuabunwa as winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and sought its nullification.
The tribunal in Abia State has continued to receive knocks over its recent judgments including that of Kalu which were said to be flawed and skewed towards candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Chairman of OBCGG, Agwu Uguru Eke, while speaking with a source said his group was urging the former governor to appeal the Umuahia judgment due to what he described as ‘miscarriage of justice’ and ‘rape on democracy’, exemplified by the recent tribunal’s judgment in the case between Kalu (PPA) and Ohuabunwa of the PDP.
Eke said their call on Kalu to approach the Appeal Court was hinged on the fact that they participated fully during the election and were convinced beyond any doubt that PDP did not win the National Assembly election in Abia North Senatorial District.
As stated by him, it was glaringly clear that the candidates returned by INEC were not the winners of the election and “everybody in the state had hoped that the tribunal would right INEC’s wrongs” but it came out doing the worst.