Chief Nwaka Inem, chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, insists that Abians were robbed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2015 governorship election that produced Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.

 He maintained that the unfortunate situation was compounded by the collusion of the judiciary which  by acts of omissiom or commission corroborated with the  party to get away with their heist.

 Inem, laying the premise for his argument, pointed to the electoral malpractices perpetrated by the PDP at Obingwa, Osisioma and Isiala Ngwa Local  Government Areas, LGAs during the election.

 HE argued that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC registers - manual and electronic showe the total figure of voters in a paeticular LGA to  be about 30,000, but the result showed a total of 80,000 voters.

 "The Supreme Court judgment was about a case of over voting in Obingwa, Osisioma and Isialangwa, which the Appeal Court had established.

 From the INEC register, both electronic and manual, the total number of voters was about 30,000 that appeared in a particular local government, the apex court went ahead and used the result that showed 80,000 votes.

 "The Supreme Court, for reasons we are still suspecting, refused to agree to the evidence as  part of the statutory register of INEC" 

 The party chieftain, who is also an aide to Dr. Alex Otti,  the APGA candidate for the 2015 Abia guber election explained that the search for justice for  Abians is what has forced APGA and Otti back to the court.

 According to him, the Justice Okon Abang judgement which sacked Gov. Ikpeazu and gave tht ticket to Dr Uche Ogah gave APGA fresh hopes that all is not lost  yet.

 "Now, we are relying on Justice Okon Abang’s judgement in a suit concerning the governor of Abia State and not the governor of PDP. The PDP fielded someone who by his judgement presented false information to INEC in respect of his tax papers.

 "Based on that, he was not qualified, which means that PDP fielded an unqualified candidate, which means all the votes that went to PDP are null and void. If that is the case, we need judicial interpretation whether the votes that were given to PDP are null and void; then the only legal votes available at the  election were that of APGA and other parties. The best they can do is to say, re-run the election, and since PDP has been disqualified, is should be left for  those with qualified candidate to run for fresh election.

 "So, we disagreed with Justice Okon Abang’s declaration of another PDP candidate to take over. If you say their candidate was wrong, you should disqualify  them outrightly. That is on the basis we went to be joined at the Appeal Court, but we were dismissed and we went to Supreme Court and they are ready to listen to us"

 additional reports sourced from The SUN