Sunday, November 10, 2024 -Hon. Igwe Akuma Akwu, the counsellorship candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Okamu Ward, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State in the November 2nd Local Government election, has raised alarm, claiming that his life is in danger since after the council poll.
Akwu who also claimed he won the election by landslide but his mandate
stolen, cried out for justice.
The PDP candidate who claimed that some security men invaded his house
at the wee hours of the election day, said two of his cousins and polling
agents were beaten by the invaders.
Akwu in a statement made available to Vanguard challenged Abia Deputy
Governor, Ikechukwu Emetu, to explain his role in the scenario.
He called on security agencies to come to his rescue, saying he has been
living in fears.
But in a swift response, the Deputy Governor denied any involvement in
the alleged invasion of Akwu’s home, saying the PDP candidate is just seeking
cheap popularity by trying to link him with his ordeal.
The Deputy Governor who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary,
Chukwudi Eke Mba, also dismissed the allegations as false, adding that the
counsellorship candidate is too small a fly to be envied by him.
”How can the Deputy Governor descend so low to such a person? After all,
PDP is already dead in Abia. He just wants people to notice him. These days if
somebody wants to make headline he will call the name of the Deputy Governor
just to draw attention. All the allegations are false”, he said.
But the PDP candidate in a statement, insisted that the Deputy Governor
should be investigated.
The statement read: ”I’m Hon. Igwe Akuma Akwu of the People’s
Democratic Party PDP and the legitimate winner of the just concluded
Councillorship election in Okamu Ward, Ohafia LGA of Abia State.
“On 2 November 2024, the election day, at around 3:25 am,
some unidentified personnel invaded my house accompanied by two of my cousins
who were thoroughly beaten up as they were forced to show them my house to
whisk me away to an unknown location.
“Fortunately, I was in the restroom and the only option I had was to
remain there till daybreak. As if the intimidation wasn’t enough, the Deputy
Governor of Abia State, His Excellency Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu, came in person to
Okon Aku Ohafia in company of Zenith Labour Party ZLP candidate , Ige
Kalu Ige searching for me.
“In spite of the Deputy Governor’s intimidation and arrest of four of my
polling unit agents; Okamu people came in their numbers and voted me and
I was declared winner of the election by ABSIEC officials.
“As a law-abiding citizen who has no criminal issues with the law
enforcement agents or the Deputy Governor, I wonder why he wants my life.
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