The House of Representatives member representing Owan Federal Constituency, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, has described as false, the report in some quarters that he attacked the senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Francis Alimikhena, over the controversial bill on the electronic transmission of election results.
Professor Ihonvbere, in a statement endorsed by his media aide, Bright Iriekpen, and made available to the Nigerian Tribune in Benin on Wednesday, said that there was no way he could have attacked the senator over an issue that was an institutional decision.
The National Assembly, it would be recalled, had a penultimate week, while considering the amendment to the Electoral Law, voted to remove the provision of electronic transmission of election results, hinging its decision on the nonavailability of 3G Network facility in most parts of the country.
Ihionvbere, while giving his midterm scorecards to his constituents last week in Afuze, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, blamed fifth columnists in the National Assembly as some external forces for the rejection of e-transmission content of the reviewed Electoral Law.
“It has just come to our attention that a faceless and totally unknown media outfit is circulating a poorly written report that Hon. Professor Julius Ihonvbere attacked Senator Francis Alimikhena on the ongoing issue of electronic transmission of votes. We state without equivocation that such a report is the product of the confused, dirty and opportunistic imagination of the unknown writer”, the professor of Political Science stated.Â
According to the statement, “Prof. Ihonvbere does not need to attack any individual in what was an institutional decision. More so, it was not necessary to attack an individual to restate his own support for electronic transmission”.
The House of Representatives member reiterated that video clips of his interaction with his constituents did not support the accusation that he mentioned anybody’s name while making his submission on the electronic transmission of votes matter.
“It is opportunistic politicians and the enemies of the Senator that are at work in this infantile move to create rancour in the APC family. It will not work. We call on our friends, colleagues, party members and supporters to disregard in totality that cooked-up report as it remains false and malicious”, Ihonvbere appealed.
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