Plot for Interim Govt: Group calls for arrest, prosecution of Nwodo, Nnaji, Edeoga
By Chijioke Ezemba
Following the recent confirmation by Department of State Service (DSS) that some disgruntled and aggrieved elements are plotting to disrupt and derail the smooth transition of power on May 29, to the elected President and Governors, a Civil Society Group, DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE has called for the arrest, investigation and prosecution of the trio of former Minister of Information, Chief John Nnia Nwodo (jnr ) his counterpart from Nkanu East LGA, Prof. Barth Nnaji and Labour Party governorship candidate in Enugu State, Barr. Chijioke Edeoga for their undermining, anti-democratic, inciting and seditious roles, comments and outbursts before and since Edeoga lost the governorship election to Barr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah.
Speaking to the journalists in Enugu yesterday, the leader of the group, Comrade Onyebuchi Nwakaya, who called on security agents to go after the three personalities, described their desperations and anti-democratic outbursts and actions since Labour Party lost the governorship seat in Enugu as unprecedented and antithetical to democratic norms.
“How can a governorship candidate of Labour Party, Barr. Edeoga write an inciting comment on a WhatsApp group calling on Enugu people to occupy INEC office even before the announcement of the governorship result which he lost to Barr. Peter Mbah of the PDP?
“Why such desperation? Why all these political desperations by Nwodo and Nnaji who are the backers of Edeoga’s governorship bid that failed? Why are Labour Party leaders like Nwodo, Nnaji and others fanning the embers of discord and calling for withholding of Mbah’s certificate of return instead of heading to tribunal?
“Why are they sponsoring all sorts of propaganda and campaign of calumny against Barr. Mbah and INEC staff?
“This is why we are calling on security agents in Enugu state and the country to arrest, investigate and prosecute the trio of Nwodo, Edeoga and Nnaji. Their activities in the state are an obvious threat to the country’s democracy and security of the state.
