ABA NORTH/SOUTH: ABA RESIDENTS WARN INEC AGAINST CREATING VIOLENCE IN ABA, ADVISES THEM TO DECLARE PRESTIGE NOW

Today, residence of Aba North and South came out in their numbers to protest the non-declaration of Honorable Prestige Ossy. The peaceful protest which started in Aba, ended up at INEC headquarters in Umuahia.

Responding to journalist, one of the protesters informed the general public that INEC has refused to announce the result of the elections that was successfully conducted by them in their federal constituency. He stated clearly in his statement that the results of the Aba North/South Federal House of Representative election which was won by Honorable Prestige Ossy has not been declared.

Based on the result made available to AFN, Hon. Ossy Prestige of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) party won with 15,040 votes against the 9,556 votes of the Peoples Democratic Party and 2,867 votes of the All Progressive Congress.

The protesters called on INEC to announce the results to avoid any form of violence arising from the tension the non-declaration is creating in Aba North and South at the moment.

Few minutes towards the end of the protest, mobile armed police men in their numbers stormed the protest point, throwing heavy tear gas against the peaceful protesters and shooting in the air which resulted to scattering the peaceful protest.

Many of the innocent peaceful protesters were injured in the process and as at press time no life was lost.