This was even as it described the claim as evil, frivolous, and a desperate plot by the senator’s detractors to distract him from being elected become Senate president of the 10th Assembly.
News of the rape allegation has gone viral on social media after it was published by an online news platform.
In the report, Chikere had cried out to Nigerians, lamenting that the Senator-elect from Imo West should not be elected as the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly.
The student, who hails from Omuma in the same local government as Governor Hope Uzodinma, bemoaned that a rapist should not be made a Senate President, claiming Izunaso ripped her of her virginity.
Reacting in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the Coordinator of APC Integrity Group, Malam Dawu Mohammed, described the claim as cheap, frivolous, and a desperate attempt to halt Izunaso’s ambition to become the next Senate president.
Mohammed stated, “We are flabbergasted at the new low that some candidates for the office of the President of the 10th Senate of the National Assembly can descend in their desperation to clinch the role. Unfortunately, some persons who want Nigerians to believe that they have the country’s interest at heart would subscribe to the temptation to cast aspersions on the interest of a fellow contestant in their satanic hope that such a move would clear their path to success.
“The recent campaign of calumny against a Chieftain of the party, and a leading contender in the race for the Senate President, Senator Osita Izunaso, by surreptitious sponsors of blackmail is indicative of desperation, evil intention, desire to usurp the interest of the people, and above all, unpatriotic. The APC Integrity Group wonders why the said victim of the alleged rape incident remains a ghost whose photo and real personality are a phantom. If indeed the respected distinguished Senator-elect was culpable of any such misdemeanor, why is there no court ruling or verdict in that regard?
“That this merchant of cheap blackmail would wait until now to go to the street with such frivolous, baseless, and corrupt atmosphere of cheap tales, tells of the tainted state of their minds, especially when it is against a man of such public image who has been in the public domain, walking freely and has by no means be found wanting or declared wanted by any security apparatus. We challenge the peddlers of this irrational, shameful, and disgraceful tale to bring the face of the accuser indicting the distinguished lawmaker of the allegation, otherwise, the APC Integrity Group would be compelled to engineer a lawsuit against the purveyor of such a graveyard story.”
