PRESS RELEASE: IKPEAZU’S DESPERATE PLOT TO RIG 2019 ELECTION UNCOVERED .- ALEX OTTI CAMPAIGN ORG 

The attention of the Alex Otti Campaign Organization has been drawn to a very dangerous plot geared towards rigging the forth coming governorship election in Abia state by the Okezie Ikpeazu led government.

Even though we have been very much aware of the too many undemocratic and cowardly acts by the government through her agents in ensuring that the democratic wishes of Abians are subverted during the 2019 governorship election, and have consistently raised the alarm and cautioned Abians against falling prey to these tricks, we are, however, alarmed by the recent attempts at early vote buying techniques.

As a responsible campaign organization featuring the most qualified and popular candidate, we owe it to Ndi Abia to alert them of this emerging scam and that if not immediately nipped in the bud may scuttle the desires of the majority of the electorates in the state.

Having since abandoned governance, the Ikpeazu government, in connivance with the PDP and other brigands, has presently channeled every energy and resources of the state in ensuring that they rig the 2019 governorship election, and has thus resorted to doing the following:

1. Refusing to pay several months of salaries arrears of thousands of Civil Servants and pensioners, and using state funds to purchase the PVCs of hungry and vulnerable citizens.
As we write, the government is using her agents in different ministries and Parastatals, to fraudulently and deceitfully collect PVC details of thousands of registered voters in exchange for sums said to range from N5,000.00 to N20,000.00 per person.

2. The government and the PDP have set up some organized groups, allocated millions of naira to them and charged them with the responsibility of fraudulently obtaining PVC details of voters, especially those in the rural areas. To realize this evil agenda, the government printed fake employment forms, brought some fertilizers and palm seedlings, and other gifts which are given to their unsuspecting victims in exchange for their PVCs. We understand that PVCs so collected are intended to be used if incident forms are going to be used by INEC, otherwise, they would be withheld to ensure genuine voters, majority of whom would vote against PDP are disenfranchised.

3. The Ikpeazu desperation took a dangerous dimension a few days ago when the scope of this fraud was widened as agents of PDP met in a hotel on Azikiwe Road, Aba where thousands of notebooks were distributed and the sum of N7,500.00 each, was handed over to the agents. They were charged to go around the state and compile names and details of potential voters and make payments to them in return. We are told that their plan is to preload card readers with the PVC details before election starts and thereby being able to falsify the results on election day.

4. It must be noted that those, especially workers in different institutions, who were discerning enough to reject Ikpeazu’s offer for money in exchange for their PVCs, are presently being identified and victimized. Some staff are already expressing fear and frustration in the hands of the desperate government.

5. The office of the wife of the Governor has allegedly also joined the vote buying racket as it is said to be opening accounts for all categories of people in commercial banks, where N10,000.00 each is deposited in a bid to lure them to vote for PDP in the forthcoming elections.

6. We are calling on the leadership of INEC at all levels and security agencies to beam their searchlights on the activities of the Okezie Ikpeazu’s government and PDP so as to promptly arrest the brains behind these acts that clearly endanger our democracy.

Signed

Kazie Uko
Director, Media and Publicity
For and on behalf of Alex Otti
Campaign Organization