2027: Those Planning To Rig Abia Election Should Write Their Wills Now – Otti

Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has issued a stern informing to politicians allegedly plotting to manipulate the 2027 governorship predetermination successful the state, declaring that anyone attempting to rig should “write their wills” earlier doing so.

Otti made the remark connected Thursday during the October variation of ‘Alex Otti Speaks to Abians’, held astatine the Government House, Umuahia.

The session, which was streamed unrecorded connected Channels Television’s YouTube page, featured the politician responding to questions connected governmental developments successful the state.

The politician cautioned that the volition of God and the radical of Abia State would yet find the result of the adjacent election, not governmental scheming oregon manipulation.

“I person heard that immoderate radical astir him say, ‘Oh, they indispensable instrumentality implicit this state, they indispensable constitute results.’ But the lone proposal I person for them is that if they genuinely privation to constitute results, they should constitute thing other earlier that time,” Otti said.

He added pointedly, “You cognize what it is? Their will.”

Otti’s comments were successful effect to a question astir a caller connection credited to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, who reportedly boasted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would instrumentality implicit Abia State successful 2027.

The governor, who contested and won the 2023 predetermination connected the level of the Labour Party (LP), said helium had nary contented with anyone contesting for the spot but warned that immoderate effort to subvert the people’s volition would conscionable stiff resistance.

“I don’t person a occupation with anyone contesting. It’s democracy. But those who are plotting to rig should beryllium acceptable to look the consequences,” Otti declared.

His informing comes amid aboriginal governmental manoeuvrings and alignments up of the 2027 governorship canvass successful Abia State.

Governor Otti, who ended implicit 2 decades of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) dominance successful the authorities with his 2023 victory, reiterated that his medication remained focused connected bully governance and volition not beryllium distracted by premature political battles.