APGA Press Release On Obingwa Burnt INEC Office

Being A Release Issued By The All Progressives Grand Alliance(Apga) Today,The 3rd Day Of August,2015 During A Press Conference Held In Umuahia In Response To The Arson Unleashed At Inec Office In Obingwa L.G.A Of Abia State On Sunday, 2nd August, 2015

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia State, received with shock and utmost disappointment the news that INEC Office in Obingwa L.G.A has been set ablaze by political hoodlums suspected to be working for the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) and Abia State Government. 

We are embarrassed that this criminal act of desperation is coming just few days after the Governorship Election Tribunal sitting In Umuahia ruled in favour of APGA and directed that materials used in Obingwa and two other LGAs be brought to the Tribunal premises for inspection as earlier requested by APGA, it is therefore very clear that the enemies of Abia who earlier failed woefully in their bid to stop APGA’s Governorship Petition from entering trial stage have now increased their anti-democratic acts of violence as the last resort to achieving the impossible. 

Recall that the PDP acted similar movie during the election when they set INEC office ablaze in Isiala Ngwa South LGA after discovering that the APGA House of Assembly candidate for the election Mr. Levi Atulegwu was cruising to victory against the PDP candidate, this led to the suspension of the election. 

It is indeed not a thing of surprise to APGA that the agents of PDP and Abia State Government who are notorious in acts of violence and anti-people brigandage finally executed this criminal act having initially prevented APGA Lawyers and Forensic Experts from inspecting those Obingwa materials which they feared would expose their electoral crimes and sink them permanently. 

Just a few days ago a deadly act of violence that led to the death of innocent police officer was unleashed at the Guest House of our Leader Dr. Alex Otti and even before the police could carry out their investigation, the Abia State Government in their suspicious panic hurriedly but disgracefully dismissed the said attack, just the way they have fraudulently but childishly tried to link APGA to this latest Obingwa madness through their misleading report on BCA; that is how petty and pitiable the Abia State Government and PDP have become. 

From using machetes and coffins to threaten innocent voters to shooting and snatching during the election, from burning down of INEC Office in Isiala Ngwa South to invasion of INEC office in Umuahia, from the 200million Dollar ADB loan to the illegal 30 billion naira loan, from begging Dr. Alex Otti to withdraw his case at the Tribunal to attack on his Lawyers and Forensic Experts, and from the assassination attempt in Abuja to the burning down of INEC Office in Obingwa, we are forced to ask, how dangerously desperate can PDP and Abia State Government be? 

As we condemn this latest infamy of futility from the enemies of Abia, we call on the Federal Government, INEC,and the necessary Security Agencies to pay special attention to Abia State and take very decisive measures to ensure that justice is not raped, and that the enemies of democracy will not ignorantly and carelessly bring avoidable anarchy to our state through these numerous provocative acts of cruelty and criminality. 

To Abia State Government and the PDP we say, pushing your luck beyond and acceptable level is akin to challenging your God, and since you cannot challenge your God and survive we the peace loving people of APGA and Abia State urge you to halt your numerous acts of visionlessness and viciousness that subject Abia to public ridicule and endanger all that the founding fathers of Abia labored to achieve.

A stich in time saves nine!

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REV. AUGUSTINE EHIEMERE

Chairman, APGA, Abia State.