APC to meet over Supreme Court rulings

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the party’s leadership will meet on a yet-to-be announced date to deliberate and decide on the way forward over Supreme Court rulings on governorship elections.

Odigie-Oyegun, who made the disclosure when a delegation of APC from Akwa-Ibom State paid him a courtesy visit at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, told the delegation that the party was waiting for the Supreme Court to give reasons for the decisions in Akwa Ibom and other states.

“What is paramount is how to move forward on the situation that confronts us. We should reach conclusions that will guide us as a party in the months ahead.

“The party’s leadership will meet on a yet-to-be announced date to deliberate and decide on the way forward over Supreme Court rulings on governorship elections, but, we have to wait until the Supreme Court gives reasons for the decisions in Akwa Ibom and other states,” Odigie-Oyegun said.

Speaking earlier, the candidate for APC in the Akwa-Ibom governorship election, Umana Umana, decried the judgment in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Udom Emmanuel. He described the judgment as an unfavorable one.

Umana decried the Supreme Court judgem

ent despite the “overwhelming evidence” presented before the Apex Court confirming election fraud and violence perpetrated by the PDP.

According to him, local and international election monitors, including the United States Embassy and the European Union (EU) and the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), reached independent conclusions that the Akwa Ibom elections were marred by widespread irregularities and violence.

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