#AbiaDecides: Plot By Gov T.A Orji Of Abia State To Release Arrested INEC Staff Caught With Card Readers



The plot by Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia state to compromise the Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police, Zone 9, Umuahia, Mr. Usman Gwary, to release unconditionally the six members of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), arrested on Tuesday in Umuahia for allegedly attempting to take away seven card readers and result sheets from the commission's office has been uncovered.

An impeccable source at Zone 9 said that the governor had offered ''irresistible'' and ''mouth watering'' sum of money to the AIG ''to release the suspects and kill the report.''

The source said on the condition of anonymity that the governor was ''jittery'' that the arrested persons ''might spill the milk'' and expose the way the governorship result was manipulated to favour the PDP candidate against the candidate of APGA, Dr. Alex Otti.

The source further said that ''it is not clear yet whether the AIG has accepted the money to kill the case because the money can be paid into the bank without my knowledge.''

It was gathered that the governor personally went to meet the AIG in his quarters to solicit his ''immediate intervention before the matter would get to the press.''

It was learnt that the card readers and the result sheets were deployed in Obingwa Local Government Area, where a whooping 82,240 votes were credited to PDP as against 1,952 votes for APGA, even when elections did not take place in the area.

Sources at INEC said that no card reader was used for accreditation in Obingwa, Osisioma, Ugwunagbo and Isialangwa North Local Government Areas during the governorship poll.

Meanwhile, confessional statements by the arrested INEC staff showed that the card readers were being taken away so that ''ICT experts can manipulate them to support the number of votes ''criminally'' allocated to PDP governorship candidate in the election.''

The list of arrested INEC staff includes the Head of ICT Dept., Engr. Herbert Ejiofor, Mr Nnamdi Nwabuko, who was driving the materials out of INEC office at the time of his arrest, Amauche Ebi Dike, Charles Mba, Nkem Ichita, Uche Enyioma, Innocent Dire, all members of staff of the ICT department and the Secretary to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Esther David.

Source: Abia Facts Newspaper

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