The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state was in the process of robbing his party of victory in the Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
“From virtually all the results uploaded and released, Labour Party won by landslide. Unfortunately the PDP government has refused to allow some of the results stand, and they are doing this with the active connivance of some compromised INEC Staff and some security agents,” Otti said in a statement.
“The LGs involved are Obingwa where the outgoing governor is from, Osisioma, Aba North and Aba South where we won overwhelmingly.
“Obingwa is a very interesting case, because in the majority of the wards, with the active connivance of INEC, the BIVAS was not used, so they are making effort to push in fake results,” the former banker added.
He asked the Federal government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that “the right thing is done in Abia State. So I expect that any result that is not coming out of BIVAS accreditation will not be accepted.
“I urge the INEC chairman to prevail on the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Abia and other INEC staff to give peace a chance and ensure that the right thing is done.”
Results so far declared by INEC from few local government areas, including Umuahia, the state capital, show that the LP is leading ahead of the ruling PDP in the state’s gubernatorial election.
