HON. PRINCE NED NWOKO WON THE PDP DELTA NORTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT'S PRIMARY ELECTION CLEAN AND SQUARE

HON. PRINCE NED NWOKO WON THE PDP DELTA NORTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT'S PRIMARY ELECTION CLEAN AND SQUARE

AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT.

By Frank Iroroh.

INTRODUCTION.

I read what exactly has the semblance of a funeral dirge with this caption, "JUDGEMENT PROCURED ON FALSE PREMISE CANNOT STAND THE TEST OF TIME". In the main body of the writeup, the author, been a coward whose demented conscience foretold him, he was deliberately misleading the people, inciting religious hatred and defaming the sparkling personality of Anioma's beloved Prince of philanthropy, was obviously not courageous enough to include his byline on the mischievous article.

Ordinarily, I do not waste precious time in responding to such a sorrow song echoing from a drowning man, most especially when such graveside weeping is coming from a cowardly faceless entity within SPON's media nymphs.

However, this part of the distasteful write up, woke me up," *....By copious and obvious lies dished out unashamedly by Prince Ned Nwoko against the actual result which was witnessed by all one begins to wonder if this is the kind of character that will aspire to represent the people of Delta North District the Aniomas at the red chambers".*
*..."Is it not a case of extreme Botheration that our Prince Ned will induce a Federal high court judge, a man who coincidentally shares the same moslem faith with him to willfully undermine and derogate the constitutional provisions, and have the temerity to gallivant, joyfully, with 'gestapo-like' mafioso  pomp and peagentry, strange to the political culture of Aniomas that this grave injustice, this perfidy against truth, honour, integrity and our constitution is a victory dedicated to God and his Anioma people. How can this very act of flagrant lies against Anioma people and undermining of our constitution be associated with this caricature of a character, Prince Ned Nwoko."*

Not minding the incoherent language style of the quote. The picture painted by the absurd article, has the hallmark of a desperate loser whose intentions is to misinformed Anioma people, defame the sparkling personality of Anioma Star Prince and invoke hatred through religious incitement within Anioma people.
Such ignorable act of fanning ambers of disunity, character assassination and religious bigotry in Anioma land, cannot be ignored, hence, it became expedite to tell the good people of Anioma nation what happened in the past months regarding the Delta north senatorial district election and how it was won by Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, clean and square.

Since the case has been resolved by Court of competent jurisdiction, now is the right time for the Anioma people to take a look at the case and be their own judge, so as to acertain who actually won the senatorial election, notwithstanding that vast majority of the people are already rejoicing for the new dawn in the politics of the region.

HOW HON. PRINCE NWOKO WON THE DELTA NORTH 9TH SENATE SEAT.

He who seek equity must come with clean hands, this simple English adage, is the guiding principle of Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko's political engagement.
In all his campaign visitations to PDP delegates and the people during the run up to the party's Delta north senatorial district primary election, while canvassing for their votes, Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, never stopped to hype on a free, fair and credible primary election, which is conducted under a level playing field. He was emphasising on these key areas because he is certain that he has all what it is takes to convince Anioma people to send him to the Senate for more effective service delivery and for better image of the region at the national and international stage.
With the assurances he received from the high and low within his party, the People's Democratic Party, PDP and the mass support he received from the delegates, he enthusiastically and optimistically went for the party primary which was held on 2rd October, 2019, at the Cenotaph, Asaba.

I was there and these were my observations;

1. The delegates to the primary were accredited at the Event Centre, Asaba, some 800m from the Cenotaph.

2. Accreditation was concluded before voting commence.

3. At the commencing of voting, the returning officer deliberately did not announce the total numbers of accredited delegates.

4. This omission was pointed out to the returning officer by Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko's agents right there, their observation were ignored.

5. The State PDP Chairman was there, his presence created an atmosphere of intimidation among the delegates. And people were curious to know why he left his Delta Central senatorial district, where he supposed to cast his vote for his senatorial candidate but decided to come to Delta north senatorial district.???

6. During voting process, some compromised leaders were seen coaxing, intimidating and outrightly forcing delegates to cast their votes for SPON.

7. The level of harassment and intimidation of the delegates were evidently so glaring that it draw the ilk of the compromised returning officer who was  compelled to caution the leaders to stop their nefarious rigging and manipulative actions.

8. At a point the leaders were seen writing the name of SPON for the delegates.

9. There were multiple voting, some delegates voted more than twice. This was exactly the reason the returning officer refused to declare the number of delegates accredited.

10. The number of accredited delegates were announced after voting and counting of votes were concluded.

11. All the activities of the day were electronically recorded.

From the above eleven recorded observations, it was clear that the primary was  manipulated to deny Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko victory in favour of SPON.

HON. PRINCE NED NWOKO'S NEXT LINE OF ACTIONS.

Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, went to the primary with absolute confidence that the election will be conducted under a free and fair atmosphere and that there will be a level playing field for all the aspirants. But the contrary was observed.
Being a man who eschew  violence and rascality, he remained calm during the bizarre rigging exercise.
As a well exposed legal luminary of international reputation, he know his onions. He then proceeded to challenge the dubious results announced which gave SPON underserved victory.

THE STEPS HE TOOK.

The first step he took was to petition the PDP SENATORIAL ELECTION PETITION APPEAL PANEL, to cancel the primary election and order a rerun based on the observed irregularities and manipulations.
As usual, SPON in his characteristics cutting corner ways, 'quenched the case', the appeal was not heard.

Faced with this brazen show of manipulative power displayed by SPON and his cohorts, Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, was left with no other options than to go to Court, to reclaim his stolen mandate.

THE ABUJA HIGH COURT RULINGS.

At the Court, his major point of argument was that he scored the highest valid votes cast by the PDP delegates during the Delta north senatorial district's primary election and prayed that he should be declared winner of the primary election.
To prove his case, he tendered the result of the actual votes cast and prayed the Court to compel PDP to produce the Delta north senatorial district's primary election materials for analysis and possible forensic examination.
PDP and SPON could not tender the election materials because they knew quite well that signature and hand writing experts will expose their frauds.

Thus, his prayers were granted by the Court to the delight of the overwhelming numbers of Anioma people.

As the adage says in our local parlance, you do not beat a child and ask him or her not to cry. Hon Prince Ned Nwoko is a citizen of this country, his right to be heard is guaranteed by the constitution of Nigeria, the supreme law of the land and any other laws that tend to deny him this fundamental right cannot and will never hold ground, so whatever legal lacuna SPON and his cohorts are using to prolong the people's choice will end in futility.
Universally, there is no other law great than fundamental human right, which encompasses the right to fair hearing.