The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance has alleged that Police arrested one Gaius with already prepared result sheets showing that the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party won in the now postponed Saturday February 16 elections.
The state chairman of APGA, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, made the allegation in a statement on Sunday in Umuahia, Abia State capital, at the governorship campaign office of Dr. Alex Otti.
Ehiemere, whose address was read by the Deputy Chairman of the Party, Chima Onyekwere, said the party in the state “received the polls postponement with shock and great disappointment.”
While recounting the losses experienced as a result of the postponement, he also disclosed that APGA’s attention had been drawn to an alleged plan by the state PDP to rig the election.
According to him, part of the plans was busted on Friday night when Police arrested a man who identified himself as Gauis somewhere in Umuahia for being in “possession of INEC’s sensitive documents and already completed result sheets that gave PDP victory ahead of the now postponed presidential and National Assembly elections.”
Reacting, the Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Don Ubani, dismissed the allegations as “blatant lies from the pit of hell.”
Ubani said that “PDP never contemplated such a heinous plot,” pointing out that APGA had only exposed what it intended to do to rig the polls.
Also, the Abia Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ene Okon, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria that the Command had yet to receive such a report from APGA or any other party in the state.
(Additional report from the News Agency of Nigeria)
