The Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has expressed shock over the allegations of the Returning Officer of the state governorship election, Prof. Nnenna Oti, in the March 18 governorship election.
Ikpeazu made this known during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Thursday.
The returning officer had said she was threatened and pressured to rig the election results, but she refused.
Ikpeazu said he had never met Prof. Oti before and that when he traced a little bit of her background he complained to the Independent National Electoral Commission that she would not be fair because of the similarity of her surname with a candidate in the election, but he was assured that they profiled her.
Reacting to her comment, he said, “This is very unfortunate. I have not met that professor and I am shocked because in the first place, if she is a professor, she doesn’t even have the capacity to manipulate results because these are results that emanated from the units, collated at the wards, collated at the local governments and brought for her to just add them up and announce.
“I’ve not met her before; I’ve not spoken to her. If I have met her, if I have spoken to her, let her come tothe public and declare so. So, I am shocked that she is making a big noise out of nothing.
“At some point, when I saw the coincidence in name and traced a little bit of her background, I complained to INEC that this lady was not going to be fair but they assured me that they had profiled her. I am still shocked.
“What she has betrayed in the aftermath of her service or stewardship in Abia indicates the fact that she is visibly happy with what she did. Her level of bias in that regard could be placed in favour of a party.
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