The senator representing Abia South senatorial zone, Chief Enyinnaya Abaribe has called on the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Alex Otti to congratulate his PDP counterpart, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the winner of the governorship poll in the state.
Abaribe who was speaking on political programme on Magic 102.9FM, Aba, posited that there is no need for the APGA candidate to continue to dissipate energy, time and resources for the supplementary poll when Ikpeazu is leading by 83,053 votes.
“The APGA candidate, Dr. Alex Otti should do the needful and put a call across to congratulate Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the winner of the governorship election in Abia state. He should emulate President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding defeat.”
The senate spokesman who was re-elected for the third time at the senate, decried the role played by some soldiers at the April 11 governorship and State Assembly polls where they beat up PDP agents and chased them away from the Aba South LGA collation.
According to him “I have met with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Kenneth Minimah and complained to him and other senior military officers about the ignoble role played by soldiers during the governorship and state Assembly election. They assured that any soldier who interfered with the elections will be made to face the full wrath of the law.”
Abaribe who was a former deputy governor called on the people of the state to take the photograph of soldiers who invade any polling unit to disrupt election, stressing that soldiers are to provide security and not to interfere with elections as some of them did on April 11.
