Governor Okezie Ikpeazu is about to be named the winner of the governorship election Abia State.
The governor polled 261,127 votes to defeat his closest rival from APC, Samson Ogah.
Mr Ogah received 99,754, coming second while All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Alex Otti got 64,366 votes to finish third.
The Returning officer in charge of the state, Benjamin Ozurumba is about to announce Mr Ikpeazu as the winner anytime from now.
Meanwhile, APC has asked for the cancellation of the election.
The ruling party gave snatching of ballot boxes, non use of Card Readers, thuggery and intimidation as reasons for their call for the scrapping of the polls.
Benedict Godson, APC Spokesman said, “The election in Abia yesterday (Saturday) was a fraud. It is not worthy to be recorded as election. Abia APC calls for total cancellation of the governorship election in Abia because there was no proper voting except if INEC is saying now that the criminality we witnessed yesterday is the definition of election in Nigeria.
“What took place on the 9th of March 2019 in many LGAs, Wards and Polling Units in our state was an organised crime. It was never an election. The intimidation of our agents, our candidates, supporters and even many innocent Abia people who only came out to effect the change we all are yearning for was what took place.
“The REC, Dr. Joseph Iloh is a PDP member. Before the election, we kept saying we don’t trust him and the then police commissioner who was only removed noon Friday and the new person cannot effect much changes in security.
“In almost all the Wards in Osisioma South and Osisioma North State Constituencies, the PDP thugs snatched ballot boxes, beat up our agents and intimidated everyone who tried to express a different opinion.
“Our candidate in Osisioma South State Constituency, Hon. Chima Oriaku was beaten black and blue by the PDP thugs and was hospitalized. Information we are getting now is that his life is still under threat and we are doing our best to ensure nothing goes wrong with him.
“Innocent Abia people who came out at Osisioma were chased away in places they discovered were APC strongholds.”
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