The national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Kenneth Udeze, has condemned attempts by some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allegedly tamper with the list of the party’s National Working Committee (NEW) on the commission’s website.
Udeze, in a letter to the INEC chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, by his counsel, Emeka Ozoani (SAN), alleged that some unscrupulous staff of the electoral body allegedly replaced his name with that of Adekunle Omo-Aje, as the national chairman of the opposition party.
He said will explore all legal measures to bring all those involved to book, noting that illegality will not be allowed to stand.
The AA chairman, while urging party faithful to remain calm, reiterated that all the candidates sponsored by the Party under his leadership remain on the ballot and ready to take over the governorship seats in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa States.
According to Udeze, a judgment of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), had affirmed him as the authentic national chairman of the AA.
He explained that there are currently two appeals pending before the Court of Appeal, which the INEC is a party to.
The party leader dismissed the purported Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) report on which INEC staff allegedly relied on to alter the list of the AA executive as fake.
The letter reads in part: “We write to complain to you, sir against some clandestine and fraudulent moves by certain members of the Legal Department and the EPM Department of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to give a skewed legal opinion or internal memo to the INEC Chairman and deceive him into announcing and recognizing Mr. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the National Chairman of Action Alliance and throw the Country and the party into political turmoil and crisis just for their personal and selfish gains.
