Victory cannot be self-declared’ — Delta North APC stakeholders tackle Okowa

Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Delta North Senatorial District person rejected what they described arsenic a “self-declared victory” by erstwhile Governor Ifeanyi Okowa successful the party’s senatorial primaries, insisting that lone the APC National Committee has the authorization to officially denote results.

The stakeholders, successful a powerfully worded connection issued aft the primaries, faulted Okowa’s alleged declaration of victory, describing it arsenic a usurpation of enactment procedures and an effort to manipulate nationalist cognition up of the authoritative announcement.

“Victory cannot beryllium self-declared. The authorization to denote results rests solely with the party’s National Committee successful enactment with APC guidelines,” the stakeholders stated.

They maintained that results collated from respective wards crossed Delta North overwhelmingly favoured Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, whom they said won the workout convincingly.

According to the stakeholders, the APC had intelligibly outlined the procedures for effect collation earlier the primaries, including ward collation, section authorities collation and last submission to the nationalist office earlier immoderate declaration could beryllium made.

The radical accused Okowa of disregarding the laid-down process by allegedly announcing himself victor earlier the completion of authoritative procedures.

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