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The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it has uncovered plots by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the 2019 general elections in Abia State.
The party which made this known to newsmen on Monday claimed that the ruling party in the state were jittery over the wave APC and it’s candidates for February, 16 and March, 2 general elections were making across the three senatorial Districts in the state and as such have perfected plans to ensure that they rigged out candidates of the APC.
It was gathered that the plot to rig the 2019 general elections is targeted at areas where the APC has dominance over the ruling party.
Angered by what he described as plot to perpetuate electoral fraud and deliberate attempt to deny the people of Etitiama Nkporo in Ndi-Elu Ohafia Local Government area of the state of their franchise, a chieftain of APC, Hon. Osisi I. Ogabja has dragged Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Abia State and the Electoral Officer (INEC), Ohafia LGA before a federal high court sitting Umuahia, the Abia State capital. This is even as he alleged that INEC
Ogabja in a suit number FHC/UM/CS/06/19 claimed that there was evidence of multiple registration of voters, registration of dead persons, registration by non appearance of persons, registration without direct capturing of images, registration of underaged, registration of non-indigenes and non-residents in Etitiama Nkporo, the hometown of Abia State deputy Governor, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, an attempt the plaintiff claimed was part of the plot PDP is using to shoot up the number of voters in the area.
“In 2015, the number of registered voters were 4000, but after 2018 revalidation exercise by INEC, the number of voters shoot up to 11,000. A close and thorough scrutiny of the register shows over 90percent of registered voters were images from still pictures with fake names and addresses.
“It is disheartening to find the names of His Royal Highness Eze K. K. Ogbu; paramount ruler of Abiriba, Hon. Chief Kingsley Imaga; Abia State Commissioner for Transport from Elu Ohafia and Barr. Ben Kalu; APC candidate for Bende Federal constituency who is a native of Bende Local Government Area and lots of others on the said voters register of Etitiama ward.
“The manipulation of the voters register is a strategic pre-condition to rig the 2019 General Election in flagrant violation of the constitution, the electoral act as amended and the guidelines for the conduct of the 2019 general elections in the State.”
Ogabja while accusing INEC of also planning to rig election in the affected 15 wards in Etitiama and undermining the validity of the 2019 election asked that the court should nullify or set aside the purported published INEC register of Ndi-Elu Ward, Nkporo in Ohafia LGA.
Reacting to the development, another chieftain of APC and Abia North senatorial candidate of the party, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in an interview said that he was not perturbed by the attempt to manipulate the voters register in Nkporo, stressing that he was confident of victory in the February, 16 National Assembly polls.
Kalu however called on security agencies in the state and INEC to ensure that the concerns raised and anomalies observed by the party in Etitiama Nkporo were addressed before the National Assembly elections in order not to disenfranchise the people from effectively participating in the 2019 general election.
