20/06/2026
THE RESULTS ARE OUT. THE MANDATE IS OURS.
On the 29th of May, 2026, the people of Abua-Odual/Ahoada East spoke. Clearly. Decisively. Across both local government areas.
In Abua/Odual , Returning Officer: Linda Nyememe Wali
Godsgift ThankGod Akari: 279 votes
Opposing aspirant: 0 votes
In Ahoada East , Returning Officers:
Mrs. Shelly Adda & Balafama Tuboinengi
Godsgift ThankGod Akari: 310 votes
Opposing aspirant: 299 votes
Constituency total: 589 votes to 299.
We won in Abua/Odual. We won in Ahoada East. We won the constituency. The returning officers are witnesses. The result sheets are attached. The evidence is undeniable.
Yet our mandate is being withheld.
I want those who are doing this to know one thing: the Supreme Court of Nigeria has already answered the question they think they are asking.
In Amaechi v. INEC (2008) 5 NWLR (Pt. 1080) 227, the Supreme Court held that the winner of a party primary cannot be substituted, cannot be ignored, and cannot be erased. In the words of the Court ,a person who did not win the primary is, in the eyes of the law, never a candidate at all.
To my people of Abua/Odual and Ahoada East to every delegate who stood firm on that day, every supporter who drove through broken roads to cast a vote, every woman, every youth, every elder who believed in this movement:
Thank you. From the depth of my heart, thank you.
Your votes are not lost. Your voices have not been silenced. What was given to us by the people cannot be taken by any individual, any committee, or any conspiracy.
We have filed our petition. Our legal team is on standby. We are pursuing this through every legitimate channel available to us , party, constitutional, and judicial. We will go to any length, through any door the law provides, to reclaim what the people of this constituency freely gave us on the 29th of May.
The mandate is ours. We will get it back.
The journey continues.
β Akari Thankgod Godsgift
Aspirant, House of Representatives
Abua-Odual/Ahoada East Federal Constituency
Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC)