Gov Okezie Ikpeazu 


By Tony Icheku

Today, Monday, Feb 27, Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and the embattled PDP would be staging their last fight for Abia South Senatorial District as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) schedules    new Presidential and National Assembly election re-run  in seven Local Government Areas of Abia State.


Clement Oha, the INEC Administration Secretary in Abia, told  journalists in Umuahia on Sunday that the elections would take place at various polling units in Aba North, Aba South, Arochukwu, Obingwa, Osisioma, Ohafia, and Umuahia North Local Government Areas by 8 a.m. on Monday.


He explained that the new polls were rescheduled as a result of various degrees of discrepancies in the procedures, which were violent to some extent.



The commission in their wisdom felt that the credibility of the election should not be compromised, and that there should be no winner by default.


So, elections must take place in the affected polling units tomorrow (Monday). Oha said the affected polling units had already been communicated

Dailyledger.com.ng reports that it would be a titanic battle between Gov. Ikpeazu and Senator Enyi Abaribe for the Abia South Senatorial seat whose election were declared inconclusive

In Abia North and Central Senatorial districts, Labour Party and the APC have already dethroned the PDP as they have already been announced winners of majority of the seats whose results had been announced.