The lawmaker representing Aba North and South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly under the All Progressives Grand Alliance Rtn. Hon. Ossy Prestige has attributed his victory at the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital as an act of God.
In their petitions, they contended that Prestige did not win the majority of the lawful votes cast at the Feb. 23 poll and urged the tribunal to respectively declare them the rightful winners. Azubuike accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of excluding results from 14 polling units in the election. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a member of the panel, Justice I.P.C Igwe, the tribunal dismissed Azubuike’s petition for lacking in merit.
Prestige in an exclusive chat with our correspondent in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state recalled how the powers that be in the state wanted to snatch from him, the mandate he said was given to him by the people of Aba North and South through an engineered rerun. The Aba North and South Federal Constituency lawmaker who said that he is not afraid if the petitioners appeal the judgment of the tribunal expressed confidence of coming out victorious at the Court of Appeal as he maintained that his victory is an act of God.
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