Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has advised that all candidates should take oaths to resolve all post-election disputes only through court processes, IgbereTV reports
“They should also commit and sign an undertaken that all disputes over election results can only be challenged peacefully through the court processes and that the parties to the dispute must be bound by the outcome of that process,” he said at the opening ceremony of the Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Monday.
According to the governor, election losers and post-election violence constitute grave threats to the peaceful cohesion of Nigeria.
“I will remain a relentless advocate of free, fair, and peaceful elections. I have always maintained that every election dispute can and should be resolved peacefully through available legal channels, not by violence or heating up the polity.
“When we as politicians accept the fact that losers of today can be winners of tomorrow, then we will see no reason to rock the boat when we lose,” the governor stated
