All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship Candidate in the just
concluded election in Abia, Dr Alex Otti has rejected the governorship
result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
, describing it as a rape on democracy.
He made this rejection while addressing the press in his Campaign Office along Bank road Umuahia, Abia state capital.
He called
on the people of Abia , whom he said that the result has thrown into
mourning to mourn no more, adding that weeping may endure for a night,
but joy comes in the morning.
He advised Abians not to resort to brigandage, thuggery, or do the wrong thing as he believes that two wrongs can make a right.
“I am
calling on my people to remain calm and steadfast, they should ensure
that they maintain the peace, the election has come , but is has not
gone, the battle has just started”, Otti asserted.
He assured
Abians that he will stop at nothing in ensuring that the mandate they
have freely given to him , “not as an individual, but as agent of
change, will never be stolen,adding that “evil can never triumph over
good. And if it seems that it is triumphing, it is only momentry because
good must prevail”, Otti stated.
“ We are
going to challenge this charade at the tribunal, and we are very
confident that with the wind of change in the entire country, that
Change will not be obstructed in Abia state. We are standing on the part
of justice because in this whole process, we have remained on the part
of truth and refused to be lured into anything wrong and because we are
standing on the part of justice, we must get justice. I know a lot of my
supporters in Abia state are angry, if you go round the state today, it
is like a dark cloud covering the whole state. There may be pockets of
rejoicing, but those are pockets. Ninety percent of Abians are mourning.
They are morning , not because somebody died, but because their will
had been truncated, the mandate they had freely given, seem to have been
stolen”, Otti said.
He called on
Abians to remain prayerful because with God , all things are possible.
“We are going to be victorious and our people will be liberated. I thank
my people for coming out to express their wishes and I am assuring them
that those wishes must be fulfilled, Otti said.
He said
further that he thank God forgiving him the opportunity to know the
level of rot in the state called Abia state, adding, “In addition to
liberating Abia people, I have also added one more thing in my
laundering lists of things to do in Abia state, as eradicating the rot
that is in this state.
He explained
that Abia people came out en mass on the two occasions to perform their
civic responsibilities of electing their leader and their leaders.
“You have
spoken with one voice, came out to say that you want a change which you
demonstrated in your massive votes to us , but unfortunately, those who
have held the state down, those who have put the state in the darkness
that it has found itself today resorted to their usual tactics of
truncating the will of the people .The reality is that you can fool some
people sometimes, but you can not fool all the people all the time”,
Otti said.
He
regretted a situation , where the governor of the state with other PDP
big wigs barged into a collation center to put undue pressure on the REC
and RO. To make them reverse an already cancelled result of three Local
Government areas, emphasizing that the party stands on the fact that
those three local government areas still remain cancelled.
He
wondered the type of pressure that would have been given to a professor
of Medicine that made him to change his mind 45 minutes after
pronouncing cancellation, stating that everything will be made open with
time.
Earlier,
the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh urged INEC to
stick to its first decision of cancelling the three local government
areas of Obingwa, Osisioma and Isialangwa Noeth.
He said that APGA, having won 11 , out of 24 members of the House of Assembly has the weight if justice learning on its side.
He said that APGA has rejected the result as announced by INEC and assured Abians that their mandate must be retrieved from PDP.
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