According to Governor Ikpeazu,Nnenna Oti was obviously pleased that she supported the Labour Party (LP) during the election.
The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Nnenna Oti, at the recently ended March 18 governorship election, according to Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, allegedly treated his party unfairly.
On Monday, March 30, he made the assertion in an interview with Channels TV.
Nnenna Oti, according to Ikpeazu, was obviously pleased that she supported the Labour Party (LP) during the election.
Governor Ikpeazu mentioned, he did some background checks on the returning officer and complained to INEC that she wouldn't be impartial in the voting process just begore the election. However, he received assurances from the electoral umpire.
The Federal University of Technology, Owerri's vice chancellor, Nnenna Oti, proclaimed LP candidate Alex Otti the winner of the Abia governorship election on March 22. The announcement came after INEC resumed final results collation for the governorship election in Umuahia, the state capital, more than 48 hours after it was halted in the South-East state.
On March 28, Nnenna Oti revealed, when being welcomed by her staff and students, that she had been threatened with manipulating the poll's results and had been given a substantial monetary prize, which she rejected.
Nnenna Oti's remark was met with Governor Ikpeazu's response that she lacked the authority to rig the results.
"This is very unfortunate. I have not met that professor and I am shocked because in the first place, if she is a professor, she doesn’t even have the capacity to manipulate results because these are results that emanated from the units, collected at the wards, collected at the local governments and brought for her to just add them up and announce. I’ve not met her before; I’ve not spoken to her. If I have met her, if I have spoken to her, let her come to the public and declare so. So, I am shocked that she is making a big noise out of nothing.â€
Ikpeazu continued by claiming that because of the similarity in the names of the returning officer and the LP candidate, he knew that the decision would be "unfair."
“At some point when I saw the coincidence in name and trace a little bit of her background, I complained to INEC that this lady was not going to be fair but they assured me that they profiled her. I am still shocked. What she has potrayed in the aftermath of her service or stewardship in Abia, indicates that fact that she is visibly happy with what she did. Her level of bias in that regard could be placed in favour of a party. She has potrayed that she has something at the back of mind before she came.†he said.