Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Victor Umeh, on Sunday called on Rtd Col David Imuse, who claims to be chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, to resign immediately.
Umeh, a member of 8th National Assembly representing Anambra Central district, said that Imuse threw caution to the wind and levied weighty but unsubstantiated allegations against Edo Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 19 guber election to the effect that among other things, Obaseki was playing to use high-level officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.
“My attention has been drawn to a toxic Text of a Press Conference addressed by one Rtd Col David Imuse, said to be the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State.
“In the said Press Conference, Rtd Col Imuse threw caution to the winds and made a lot of weighty allegations of a plot by Governor Obaseki to rig the forthcoming Governorship Election in Edo State on the 19th day of September 2020 using Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission coordinated by Barrister Mike Igini, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner!
“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have bothered to join the fray, but I was constrained to do so after reading the direct allegations he made against Barrister Mike Igini who is unarguably one of Nigeria’s very principled and noble Public Officers.
“Rtd Col David Imuse in his poorly scripted immature Text of Press Conference which was bereft of any safeguard and full of libelous paragraphs, attempted to blackmail the wrong person,” he said.
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