Action Alliance Denies Contesting Obaseki’s Victory

The National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Hon Rufai Adekunle Omoaje, has declared that the party was not aware of any case filed before the Edo State Election Petitions tribunal, claiming that the suit was filed by an impostor.
One Ukonga Frank Onaivi, who claimed to be a member of the AA had filed a case before the tribunal, seeking cancellation of the election that produced Governor Godwin Obaseki.
But Omoaje, while reacting to the development, said Onaivi was not the governorship candidate of the AA in the last Edo State governorship election, hence he lacks the power to institute any case on behalf of the party.
He said Mr Godwin Edem-akhiota Oasimiamia who was the governorship candidate of the party in the election had already congratulated Mr Obaseki on his victory.
He added that the leadership of the AA at both the state and national levels had also congratulated the Governor, stressing that ‘how come a party that had congratulated the winner would also challenge the winner. This shows that we are not aware of the litigation.’
According to him, the said litigant is an impostor and not one of us in the AA. It’s only the governorship candidate of the party that can challenge the result of an election. Onaivi, who instituted the case at the tribunal lacks the power to do so. He did not represent the party and we don’t know him.