The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) have claimed that the Abia State administration does not support their operations.
A further denial was made by the Alex Otti-led administration on the use of public funds to support Peter Obi’s legal actions as the Labour Party’s presidential candidate on February 25.
In response to the recent media claims, Ferdinand Ekeoma, Governor Alex Otti’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, issued the denials.
The press conferences where the claims were made, according to the Abia government, are believed to have been sponsored by the two opposition parties who are currently contesting Otti’s election to the governorship in court.
The state government claimed that the accusations were serious and that security authorities should look into them in order to invite the people making them to give evidence.
In the first press conference, a group of young men claimed that Governor Alex Otti had paid for Mr. Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate in the most recent election, to file a lawsuit using money from the state of Abia.
Another odd bunch of people said, in the second news conference, that the four-month-old government of Dr. Alex Otti was funding IPOB in order to incite terror in the State.
They went so far as to demand that the governorship election judgement scheduled for October 6, 2023 not be delivered in Abia because the Abia State government allegedly has plans to intimidate the Justices into ruling in favour of Governor Alex Otti or, alternatively, would ensure that the Judges would be killed if they fail to rule in the Governor’s favour, according to Ekeoma.
Insecurity, a breakdown in law and order, and even the lives of innocent civilians could be put in peril as a result of the charges, he claimed.
