The People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Abia State says, it will challenge the results of the March 18th Governorship/State Assembly elections in the state.
In a statement the party released Tuesday night, and signed by the Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary, Elder Abraham Amah, the party said “The Abia PDP State Working Committee, SWC and the enlarged State Executive Committee, SEC met today nd reviewed the results after collecting all the materials used in the conduct of the just concluded guber and State HOA elections and has decided to go to court to challenge the results of the Abia guber election, especially in six local government areas where the BIVAS machines were not used”.
This decision, the party said “is coming on the heels of members of the Labour Party taking its own candidates that were declared winners to court despite the honest and wise advise and appeal of the Abia State governor Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu that the those that have been declared winners of the election including the governor-elect, Alex Otti should be spared the burden of litigation which only serves to distract public officers from performing their duties and responsibilities”.
The party expressed it’s shock to note that “at a time when it is making arrangements for a seamless and peaceful transition for the new government, it is the same Labour Party that was declared the winner that is trying to torpedo the process.
“Subsequently, the legal department of the Abia PDP will release the details of its petitions in the next 24 hours and head to the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the declaration of Alex Otti of the Labour Party as the winner of the March 18, 2023 governorship election”, and callEd on Abians to remain calm, peaceful and steadfast “as we work to reclaim our mandate”.
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