The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 11 off-cycle election in Imo State, Samuel Anyanwu, is determined to employ every possible avenue to unseat Governor Hope Uzodinma.
Anyanwu asserts his commitment to reclaim what he considers his stolen mandate, denouncing the November 11 election as an affront to democracy in the state.
Speaking to journalists in Owerri, the state capital, he outlined his resolve to challenge the results and address what he perceives as a violation of democratic principles during the election.
Despite the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Uzodinma the winner, Anyanwu insists on pursuing legal and procedural avenues to contest the outcome, where he secured the second position, with Achonu coming in third in the recently concluded governorship election.
However, Anyanwu said: “The Imolites have been injured. Our collective patrimony has been withered. Our cries and wounds know no bounds. I feel your pains. My heart bleeds for the freedom of our people from the wicked governance of the state. The wicked must not go unpunished.
“Injury to one is injury to all. It will be recalled that the insecurity today in the South East is exported from Imo State to other Eastern States through the use of non-state actors for the purpose of elections.
“Moving forward, therefore, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a peace-loving party, cannot be involved in any form of violence whatsoever or lawlessness. Let me once more appeal to you to remain calm, law-abiding and good party loyalists.
“Your unflinching support, wonderful encouragement, and fervent prayers are as exceptional as they are phenomenal. We shall deploy all acceptable and all known legal machinery in motion to recover our stolen mandate.
“What really happened on November 11, 2023, was an open rape of democracy, a broad day robbery of the Imo people’s mandate, a coordinated plot to destabilise, dislocate, and disfigure a people already injured by the same cartel who has vowed not to give peace a chance in Imo State.”
