#AbiaDecides: Labour Party Gov’ship Candidate In Abia, Alex Otti Reacts To Suspension Of Collation

The Labour Party governorship candidate in Abia State, Alex Otti, has come out to react to the suspension of the collation of results from Saturday’s governorship and state assembly election in the state.

According to him, he and his party has accepted in good faith the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to review the results from the Obingwa Local Government Area.

Otti, who called for calm as gathered by Naija News, described the affected area as a terror ground because of the desperation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

He told pressmen at the Labour Pary campaign headquarters in Umuahia on Monday that the results from the local government looked dubious, while alleging that there were incidents that the number of said vote cast outnumbers the total number of accredited voters by a great margin.

Otti submitted that “I addressed the press and our teeming supporters who had thronged our campaign headquarters, ready to celebrate our victory at the just concluded election. We received in good faith the decision by INEC to scrutinize the dubious result from Obingwa.

“Obingwa has become a terror ground, not by the making of the innocent citizens there, but because of the desperation of the PDP in Abia state who, forgetting that times have changed, resorted to their usual election rigging strategy.

“The situation saw the number of purported votes cast outnumbering the accredited voters by a great margin, and recourse to violence that had our Obingwa LG agent Dr George Chiedozie brutalized by PDP thugs. I urge Ndi Abia to remain calm, as we await INEC to do the right thing.”

It would be recalled that on Monday, the INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, in a statement disclosed that the commission decided after a meeting to review results from certain areas in Abia and Enugu states.