Hottestgistnaija.com
The Government of Abia State has decried the incessant dishing out of falsehoods by the oppositions and some faceless groups aimed at causing confusion and heating up the polity in our very peaceful State.
Government expressed its alarm in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Charles Ajunwa, saying that it has become a past time for faceless groups and their opposition collaborators to shout wolf when there is none.
He said that “it is particularly worrisome and ridiculous” that an amorphous group with an adopted name of Abia Political Vanguard (APV) would engage in a wild allegation of accusing Governor Theodore Orji and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to rig the forthcoming polls by depriving voters of their permanent voters cards (PVCs).
“If there is any grand design to rig the forthcoming elections in Abia it should be located in the realm where the so called President of APV, one Comrade Godson Umahi, and his cohorts reside and manufacture their falsehoods to deceive the general public,” the statement said.
He also stated that no Abia civil servant was asked “to turn in their PVCs” as alleged by Umahi. The CPS explained that as part of efforts to increase PVC distribution and collection, which had already recorded over 80 percent success, “Government has continued to enlighten and educate the citizens to go to their different Wards/Local Government Areas to obtain their PVCs.
“The general public is hereby urged to disregard the doomsday alarmists and agents of confusion whose stock in trade is to twist facts and misinterpret every genuine effort of the Governor and the ruling PDP to encourage mass participation of Abians in the electoral process,” he said.
According to the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, the opposition candidates and their agents that masquerade as “socio-political pressure groups” have resorted to making excuses about the impending electoral defeat staring them in the face.
He assured that government was committed to ensuring that the 2015 general elections would be conducted in a very peaceful atmosphere and that Abia voters exercised their franchise freely without intimidation, molestation or hindrance.
