ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in Abia State, Alex Otti, has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State was planning to rig the just concluded governorship election.
Otti made the claims in press release he signed by himself and made available to journalists.
He said that the Labour Party won in all the results uploaded and released so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).
He, however, alleged that the PDP government has refused to allow some of the results stand, even as he accused some INEC officials of been compromised.
He said: “I want to use this opportunity to call on the Federal government and particularly the INEC chairman to ensure that the right thing is done in Abia State.
“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.
“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 BVAS was not used, so they are making effort to push in fake results.
“I want to use this opportunity to call on the Federal government and particularly the INEC chairman 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.”