PDP candidates alert INEC over plot to alter Anambra list

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) candidates from Anambra State in next month’s general elections have alerted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over what they described as subterranean moves by some persons to alter the list of elected candidates of the party.

     Addressing journalists at the end of their meeting Wednesday in Awka, where a communiqué was read out, their spokesman Mr. Valentine Ayika explained, “before you here are the PDP Anambra candidates for Federal House of Representatives for the 2015 general election. The major purpose of this briefing is to call on our teeming supporters, well wishers and followers to remain calm and ensure that PDP wins the 2015 general election with a landslide victory in Anambra State.

    “We also wish to use this opportunity to straighten some deliberately twisted issues by some desperate power seekers who can stop at nothing in trying to acquire power. May it please you to know that premised on a judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja we participated in a properly organized primary by our party, PDP, and emerged victorious in the exercise. We equally fulfilled all other electoral requirements that culminated into our names being published on 13th January 2015, the last day for publication, in INEC website and their other relevant offices.” 

    “We are reliably informed that the said desperate power seekers are mounting overwhelming pressures on INEC to substitute our names with theirs, an act that would amount to overt impunity. At this juncture, we call on INEC to resist any pressure to indulge in any illegal act rather they should be guided by the relevant provisions of our Constitution and Statutes,” they said.