Date Published: 03/26/10

25 th March 2010.

Press Release.

Lagos AC Welcomes Emordi’s Sack, Demands Quick Action on Electoral Reforms.

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has lauded the sacking of Mrs. Joy Emordi, the senator representing Anambra North Senatorial district in the senate from the senate by the Appeal Tribunal. The party says that coming so late in the life of the mandate Emordi has wrongfully exercised, the verdict raises critical questions about the health of the country and restated its support to the recommendation of the Uwais Electoral Reform Panel that electoral disputes be settled before an elected officer is sworn in.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Publicity Secretary of the AC in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, the party says that while it feels happy that yet another impostor has fallen from the house of fraud INEC built in 2007, it feels it is grossly unfair that a person that stole another person’s mandate should exercise such mandate for the greater period of the mandate. It therefore calls for speedy action on this anomaly and punitive action to discourage those that steal other peoples’ mandates and employ same for personal benefits.

“The fall of Emordi goes to prove the well known and universally acknowledged fact that the 2007 shambolic election was a mere fraud that had no redeeming feature. Emordi is just unlucky that her case was decided in favour of her opponent. There are several others who stole their ways to power and capitalized on the weak and dysfunctional system in Nigeria to remain in power today. This is the reason everything must be done to reform the seedy electoral process that levied this charade on us.

“Lagos AC is more concerned that most of our elected leaders are impostors that stole other peoples’ mandates and have used these mandates to commit pure economic crimes in every level of leadership. We are concerned that the nation’s resources end up, both legally and illegally in the purses of people that never got the mandate of the people to preside over their affairs and this speaks of the abnormally of the Nigerian system and why it must be urgently addressed.

“We are asking of what happens to the salaries and other benefits Emordi and all those that were not legally elected but who succeeded to corner the mandates of others. Are these salaries going to be refunded to the rightful owners of the mandates or the treasury of the nation? We feel that Nigeria must answer this question as a way of ensuring that such criminal practices of investing another person with another person’s mandate is stopped.

“When we calculate the enormous resources misapplied to those that stole electoral mandates to get to power, we would observe that the nation bleeds heavily from the criminal perverting of the country’s electoral system by unconscionable electoral officers and their corrupt political allies. We demand that a thorough reform of the electoral process be carried out in line with the recommendations of the Uwais Reform Panel so as to prevent such further cases of corrupt hemorrhage on the system. We call that all Nigerians rise up now to demand quick and urgent adoption of the reports of the Electoral Reform Panel to jump start the redemption of the shoddy electoral process that brought about these embarrassing situations as the ouster of Enordi after wielding an illegal mandate for three years.”

Joe Igbokwe.

Publicity Secretary,

Lagos AC.