Ahmed Gulak
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship electoral committee for Imo State, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has said that what he submitted to the National Working Committee as a fall-out of his assignment in Imo state to supervise the party governorship primary election was a reflection of what actually happened.
He said that it is left for the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to do whatever they wanted with the results. The chairman had declared Senator Hope Uzodinma as the winner of the APC gubernatorial election in Imo state.
Gulak spoke on Channels TV programme on Wednesday just as Governor Rochas Okorocha called for his arrest and prosecution over what he described as the biggest electoral fraud of the century.
The chairman said that he was surprised that when he arrived in Owerri the brief he got was different from what the national leadership of the party had asked him to do, adding that as statesman he could not afford to sell his conscience.
He alleged that some members of the committee were abducted and taken to Government House from their hotel, adding that he had to escape when he sensed danger.
Meanwhile Governor Rochas Okorocha has called for the arrest and arraignment of Gulak.
•Excerpted from Daily Trust report
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