2023 GUBER POLLS: ABIA STATE CONTROVERSIAL OBINGWA LG RESULTS MOVED TO ABUJA FOR REVIEW

The highly controversial Obingwa Local Government results in the Abia governorship election, held on 18th March, 2023 which was suspended for a review by INEC has been moved to Abuja.
Earlier in the suspension letter read publicly by Abia State INEC Administrative Secretary, Mr. Clement Oha, stated that an INEC team will be in Umuahia for a review of the results.
However, below are some facts about Obingwa Local Government results:

• The total registered voters in Obingwa is about 157,000
• The total number of voters accredited on 18th of March via BVAS in Obingwa is a little above 23,000
• PDP Allegedly allocated a whooping 108,000 votes to itself in the said LGA
• The INEC returning officer upon seeing the unbelievable ‘bomb’ queried the collated results and contacted its headquarters in Abuja for advice.
  PDP political thugs in support of the Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu stormed the Local Government Collation Centre and held Electoral Officials hostage while unleashing mayhem on other party agents.
• The INEC headquarter then mandated the returning officer to suspend the results from Obingwa and directed the commission’s southeast zonal office to review the results from Obingwa

INEC will be trying to understand how 23,000 voters who were accredited to vote in Obingwa manufactured 108,000 votes.
Gov. Ikpeazu hails from the troubled Local Government Area.

For the records, below is the voting pattern of Obingwa Local Goverment Area in the current 2023 elections so far.

OBINGWA LGA: presidential election(2023)
results
APC. 564
LP. 23687
PDP. 2747

Today 26,998

OBINGWA LGA: Abia south senatorial election(2023)
APGA-11,817
LP-4,356
PDP-9,790

Total 25,963

OBINGWA EAST state constituency(2023)

PDP-7772
LP-1636
YPP -1257
APGA- 450

Total 11,115

OBINGWA WEST state constituency(2023)

PDP-13769
LP-3038

Total 16807

Grand Total for Obingwa East and West

Total 27922

Abia state has 17 LGAs and INEC has announced results for 16 LGAs remaining Gov Ikpeazu’s LGA, Obingwa.

LP: 172,000
PDP: 78,000

LP is currently leading with 94,000 votes