MY TRIBUNAL IMPERSONATORS SHOULD BE ARRESTED, PER MY REQUEST TO THE IGP AND DSS – IGBOKWE

Hon. Ifeanyi Igbokwe, the Action Alliance (AA) candidate for the Bende Federal Constituency in the 2023 National Assembly election, has requested the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain anyone who is suspected of impersonating him in court on the election’s results.

At a news conference in Abuja, the AA leader made this statement.

Igbokwe claims that he never submitted a claim to the Tribunal to challenge the election’s results.

He clarified that he had long since recognized Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu’s election as the House of Representatives’ deputy speaker.

The politician questioned why, despite never filing a lawsuit, he was always seeing rumors of one.

Igbokwe claimed that after investigating the situation, he petitioned the IGP and the Director of the Department of State Service (DSS) to have the impersonators arrested and charged with a crime because it was a criminal problem.

“I did not file any legal action at the Tribunal to challenge the election’s results,” he claimed. I’ve long accepted Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu’s election as the House of Representatives’ deputy speaker.

But to my greatest dismay, I have kept reading about a lawsuit that was secretly filed by my modest self against Kalu. I came here to state that I did not take legal action against Kalu and that I reported being impersonated to the security authorities.

You might be interested to know that I went to the tribunal in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, with my attorneys to find out who filed the complaint as soon as we learned about it.

To everyone’s surprise, only I arrived and brazenly claimed to be Hon. Ifeanyi Chukwuka Igbokwe. I also discovered that those who were impersonating me had attorneys in the courtroom. But the attorneys vanished before the Tribunal could call the case up. The Tribunal later dismissed the matter after we submitted our briefs.