USAfrica BrkNEWS: Abia Elections Tribunal rule on Otti vs Ikpeazu
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The Abia State elections tribunal is expected to announce its ruling, USAfricaonline.com has learned, on Tuesday November 3, 2015 in Umuahia.
APGA’s Dr. Alex Otti, immediate past chief executive officer of Diamond Bank, has mounted a strong case challenging the declaration of PDP’s Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as Governor of Abia State by the INEC Abia since the April 2015.
Otti’s battery of lawyers alongside several Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), according to USAfrica correspondent at the Umuahia tribunal proceedings, requested the tribunal that based on what they presented as evidences of alleged rigging of votes, inflation of numbers and falsification of results far in excess of actually registered voters and PVCs in some constituencies, the tribunal should void Ikpeazu’s claim to have been duly elected as Governor.
O the other hand, the Ikpeazu camp insists that their client who had the backing of the immediate former Governor of the State Theodore Orji has valid claims to be affirmed as the actual winner of the disputed elections — which I covered in Abia State.
Meanwhile, a group known as the Concerned Abia indigenes in the U.S held demonstrations in New York and Washington DC at the Nigeria consular mission and embassy, respectively, last week, to demand for credible and factual electoral results and ruling by the INEC and the election tribunal. They rallied to protest what they cited as a “grand, corrupt scheme to violate the actual votes of Abia people. Hence, we call on the US Department of State and the federal government of Nigeria to immediately keep an oversight interest concerning the events in Abia State.”
The entry of the final/closing arguments by the Otti and Ikpeazu lawyers were made on Monday October 19, 2015. Supporters of Otti and Ikpeazu are, metaphorically, pregnant with expectations of the tribunal ruling in their favour. USAfrica will publish across all of our electronic platforms the decisions and ruling of the tribunal, as expected in a few hours on Tuesday in Umuahia. By Chido Nwangwu, Founder & Publisher of USAfrica and first African-owned, U.S-based professional newspaper published on the internet. chido@USAfricaonline.com Follow me @Chido247
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