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Abia re-run: Caskets litter Aba to instil fear in voters
UMUAHIA—ABA residents woke up yesterday to meet caskets on some
major streets in the commercial city, with warnings inscribed on them that if
the people failed to vote for an Ngwa governor they would be killed.
This is coming 48 hours to the
supplementary elections scheduled by INEC to decide the inconclusive governorship
elections in the state.
The two councils of Aba North and
Aba South are part of the areas where the election will hold tomorrow.
The sight of the coffins and the
warning sent fears into the people, prompting some voters to vow not to come
out tomorrow to vote in the re-run election for fear of their lives.
However, the two major political parties involved in
tomorrow’s election, the ruling PDP and APGA, have condemned the act and
accused each other of being behind the evil act.
While PDP candidate in the election,
Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, dissociated himself from the dastardly act, his APGA
counterpart, Dr. Alex Otti, described it as “despicable, shameful and barbaric
act by desperate and frustrated politicians.”
APGA also blamed it on the PDP which
it accused of using the coffins to discourage its supporters in Aba from coming
out to vote in tomorrow’s election.
“The attention of Dr Okezie Ikpeazu,
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for Abia State has
been drawn to the ugly incident witnessed in Aba this morning, where caskets are
being dropped at various places in Aba, with a threat that those who will not
vote for Dr.. Ikpeazu and the PDP in the Saturday’s supplementary election will
die.
“Dr. Okezie is by this means
dissociating himself from such dastardly act, and also inform Abians and the
general public that such is the handiwork of the opposition who have shown
their desperations in various ways since the beginning of the governorship
contest.
source :vanguard news
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