The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi chapter, has rejected the Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state, describing the exercise as a “mono-party polls” allegedly conducted in defiance of subsisting court judgments.
The State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr Darlington Onwe, made the position known at a press conference in Abakaliki on Sunday.
Onwe said the party considered the exercise “not an election at all,” alleging that the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission (EBSIEC) and the state government had failed to ensure genuine participation by all registered political parties.
He argued that the exercise was unconstitutional and incapable of conferring legitimacy on any candidate that emerged from it.
According to him, Section 7(1) of the 1999 Constitution guarantees a system of democratically elected local government councils, while Section 14 recognises the sovereignty of the people and their participation in governance.
