Abia Gov-elect, Alex Otti pays tribute to INEC, Prof Nnenna Oti
Abia State Governor-Elect, Dr. Alex Otti, has commended the Returning Officer, Prof. Nnenna Otti for standing firm and refusing to be compromised to work against the will of the people.
Also, he commended Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its handling of March 11 election in Abia State.
Prof. Nnenna Otti who is the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), had disclosed that there were attempt to induce her financially and intimidate her to accept cooked up figures from Obingwa Local Government Area.
Alex Otti who contested under the platform of
The Labour Party (LP), was leading by wide margin after results from 16 local government areas had been collated.
Meanwhile, the party had accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state of distorting the figures from Obingwa with the intention of rigging the election.
Notwithstanding, the result tussle, Alex Otti was declared and has received his Certificate of Return. And has thanked the returning officer for a job well done.
“Once again, let me thank INEC for the fantastic work that was done. Let me put it on record, my thanks to the Returning Officer, Prof Nnenna Oti, who by no means is related to me. I’ve read a few things, saying that she is my sister. I’ve never met her. From available record, she is from Ebonyi State.
Furthermore, Alex Otti Declared that Prof. Nnenna Otti has shown that with people like her, there’s still hope for Nigeria.
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In addition, Otti thanked Abians and advised all those who have government properties in their possession to return them, vowing that he would not allow individuals to “privatise” Abia resources to themselves while the rest of the citizenry languish in abject poverty and penury.
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