Ned Nwoko has vowed to challenge the outcome of the All Progressives Congress senatorial primary in court, insisting that the results announced did not reflect the actual votes cast during the exercise.
Speaking during an interview on Arise TV, Nwoko rejected the declaration of former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as winner of the primary, maintaining that evidence gathered from the wards showed he won the contest.
According to him, party officials directed midway into the exercise that no results should be announced at the ward level, adding that all figures were to be collated and later released from the party’s national headquarters in Abuja.
Nwoko also questioned the credibility of the figures announced from the ward shown in the video, claiming the turnout seen did not match the official numbers released.
“We have submitted them. Halfway through the primary, we got a message on our phones that no results should be announced at the ward level — that they should be collected and then announced later at the national in Abuja.
“And so, we thought we’d be law-abiding. Suddenly, we saw some news. We saw only that one video — of one of the wards in Ika North East,” he said.
“It was just one video, showing three people in a line, and then the rest that were probably not more than 500. That’s what I saw in the video. Although in the result, they said there were 5,000,” he stated.
The senator argued that only one ward video had been made public and challenged party officials to release recordings and results from the remaining wards.
Nwoko further declared that he would not accept any outcome upheld by the APC leadership if it contradicted what he described as the genuine mandate of party members.
“The video that you saw, where Ifeanyi Okowa was announced as the winner, was just one video from one ward out of 98 wards. Maybe they should show us other videos. They must show us the figures,” he insisted.
“I wouldn’t accept it because I have a mandate. I have a mandate by the people. We will head towards litigation,” he said.
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