USAfrica: Abia Governorship, Burning of INEC Obingwa office is obstruction of justice.

Abia Governorship: Burning of INEC Obingwa office is obstruction of justice.                                By C.C. AGUJIEGBE

The  implications of the burning of the INEC building, voting documents and destruction of electoral equipment on Sunday August 2, 2015 in the same Obingwa constituency where phantom votes were allegedly criminally rigged to benefit the PDP’s Governorship candidate  Dr. Ikpeazu (who hails from the same area) are clear to every Abian, Nigerian and discerning observers . It will, I hope, be viewed by the Election Tribunal for Abia State as a monstrous and devious ploy  to cause  a monumental obstruction of justice by the desperate impostors .

It is therefore amazing and surprising that those who shamelessly knew they stole APGA’s mandate, would now resort to alleged arson to cover up their guilt.
Inspite of the crocodile tears and shameless posturing by the Ikpeazu-Ochendo PDP party, Abia and diligent law enforcement agencies have seen through their vain endless campaign of lies and distortion of the most commonsensical facts.
One of those facts remain that ONLY ONE group is desperate to destroy and bury evidences which clearly, manifestly and unquestionably prove that almost 55,000 votes were allegedly written into the final results announced by the INEC, shortly after the then PDP Governor Theodore Orji (aka Ochendo) and his coterie of PDP leaders unlawfully allegedly forced their way into the INEC headquarters in Umuahia to intimidate and compel a rigged outcome.

Given the propensity of the rigging and the shenanigan of the PDP, APGA supporters and law abiding citizens across the various parts of Abia State are optimistic that the tribunal cannot be intimidated or distracted by desperate politicians and would call a spade,ma spade. The tribunal of course would visualise the desper a te burning of the INEC burning at Obingwa as blatant case of the obstruction of justice and should never be rewarded.
This latest incineration of credible evidence and voting equipment , unquestionably, prove that the Ikpeazu-Ochendo-PDP  LOST the 2015 Abia Governorship election. They must have been scared stiff that second defeat stares them in the face. Desperate and likened to a most forsaken band of people whose cups are full and now have no place to hide, the only option perhaps left is to burn down the INEC office in that locality.

It is equally important to point out that PDP’s Dr. Ikpeazu remains, for now, the chief security officer of Abia. WHY did he not  protect the treasured election materials right in his own constituency?? IF he won, he would have proudly and jealously protected the election materials to show valid proof of “victory.” We are not fooled!!
Confused that their  ills have become common knowledge, they have no other option than to run from pillar to post, putting every foot wrong on the post election debacle in their desperation  to entrench what the real voters of Abia have since characterized as “a stolen mandate.”

Ikpeazu-Ochendo and their fellow PDP travellers cannot pull wool over the eyes of Nigeria ns; the international community and observers declared that the man who won the last Governorship elections in Abia State, was  unmistakably the APGA Candidate, the amiable and astute former bank executive, Dr Alex Otti.

The APGA Governorship Candidate, Dr Alex Otti, is challenging the declaration of the PDP Candi date Dr Ikpeazu as the winner of that elections in April this year. The announcement of that result was met with protests and condemnation by Abians who believed they have been robbed and their wishes thwarted and as such have been supportive of Dr Otti contesting that result at the Electoral Tribuna l  in Umuahia.

They are convinced beyond any iota of doubt that the man they voted for will triumph at the end of the day and have refused to quiver or entertain any fear that justice would be finally dispensed to one who had been wronged. It is this show of solidarity and enthusiasm that had buoyed Dr Otti to plod and recover what is generally termed in Abia as alleged ‘stolen mandate’.
A random sample of views conducted by several interest groups in all the five  States , East of the Niger , undoubtedly pontificates that the APGA man had dealt a deserving blow to the PDP as both young, old, man, woman can walk blindfolded if requested and point to where the Cock crows as the winner of that polls.
The build up to the elections- pre, during and post election, had painfully brought to the fore, the chicanery, blackmail, intimidation, harassment and overt display of  thuggery and shameless  fals i fication of results, were several of the  crudity employed to deny Dr Otti his service which ‘Ndi Abia State, Igbo and to a larger extent Nigerians deservedly need.

Of late, the APGA flag bearer for Abia State few days ago, had cried to the high heavens that attempts were being made to assassinate him. Indeed, he had also alleged in the past, that those who saw him as their biggest threat, had planned to eliminate him. What a wicked and vicious cabal of a society. What you cannot get, destroy, annihilate, kill and vandalise. Shame, shame and shame!
They forget to their chagrin that the mandate Dr Otti has, would by the grace of God be given back to him through the Electoral Panel.

The Abia people both at home and Diaspora and indeed all peace loving people of Nigeria,  are desirous that the fluke and the phyrric victory of the incumbent, would not last the distance. The real masquerade is returning, just in time and Abia would be back to the village squares to celebrate and clink glasses once more. The people and activists of Abia have since resolved that those who stole their m andate will not rest until justice is done and fake votes are voided!  – – Agujiegbe is an Aba-born, raised and based  business executive.

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