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The governorship
candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC) in Enugu State,
Osita Okechukwu has said forensic examination of the ballot papers used
in the April 16 Presidential poll will expose the alleged massive
rigging of the election by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in
the south east and south-south zones of the country.

Reacting to the
allegation that the CPC lost the election in the zones, Mr Okechukwu,
in a statement yesterday, said “Forensic test anchored on biometrics
technology, will expose the jumbo allocation of votes to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the South East and south-South; characterized
by monumental ballot stuffing” .

“We are assembling
our evidence and will expose to the world the hitech-rigging which
polluted the presidential election. We are not crying wolf, where there
is none. We are not bad losers.”

The governorship
candidate, who is also the spokesperson for the Conference for Nigerian
Political Parties (CNPP), denied claims that intra-party crisis rocked
the party’s election in the zones, adding that no major political party
is free from such crises.

According to him,
the fractionalization of the CPC is not worse than that of the PDP, and
insisted that no hatchet or settled group should use intra-party crisis
as an excuse.

“Let them go in
peace with their loot; but they cannot stop us from presenting our
evidence in the Presidential Tribunal,” Mr Okechukwu said.

He recounted that
there was low turnout of voters in the five state that comprise the
south east zone during the presidential poll, which he said hovered
around 35 percent.

He said, “We
maintain that the low turnout at the presidential election, especially
in the South East, hovered between 30% and 35% and therefore the result
posted is untenable and outrageous.

“No electorate throughout history rewards a political party which
failed to provide common infrastructure like electricity; it will be
inconceivable that Nigerian electorate rewarded PDP for decade stretch
of failed promises. On Forensic Test and Biometric Technology we depend
to prove our case; not on propaganda.”