I\’m shocked that she is making a giant noise out of nothing – Gov Ikpeazu expresses displeasure at INEC returning officer, Prof. Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti\’s remark after supervising Abia guber election (video)

 Abia state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has accused Prof Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti, the Returning Officer of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) on the just-concluded March 18 governorship election within the state of being unfair to all events that participated within the ballot.

In an interview with Channels TV on Monday evening March 30, Ikpeazu mentioned Nnannaya-Oti was “visibly blissful” that she “favoured” the Labour Get together (LP)through the election. 

Governor Ikpeazu added that earlier than the ballot, he carried out some background checks on the returning officer and complained to INEC that she gained’t be honest within the electoral course of however received assurances from the electoral umpire.

Recall that on March 22, Nnannaya-Oti, who\’s the Vice Chancellor of the Federal College of Know-how, Owerri, declared LP’s Alex Otti the winner of the March 18 governorship election in Abia. The declaration adopted the resumption of the ultimate collation of governorship election leads to Umuahia, the state capital over 48 hours after INEC suspended the train within the South-East state. 

On March 28, Nnannaya-Oti whereas being acquired by her employees and college students, mentioned she was threatened and pressured to control the results of the ballot however she stood her floor.

Responding to Nnannaya-Oti\’s remark, Governor Ikpeazu described it as very unlucky as she lacked the ability to control outcomes.

“That is very unlucky. I\’ve not met that professor and I\’m shocked as a result of within the first place, if she is a professor, she doesn’t even have the capability to control outcomes as a result of these are outcomes that emanated from the models, collected on the wards, collected on the native governments and introduced for her to simply add them up and announce. I’ve not met her earlier than; I’ve not spoken to her. If I\’ve met her, if I\’ve spoken to her, let her come to the general public and declare so. So, I\’m shocked that she is making a giant noise out of nothing.”

Ikpeazu additionally mentioned he knew the returning officer could be “unfair” as a result of coincidence in her identify and that of the LP candidate.

“In some unspecified time in the future once I noticed the coincidence in identify and hint a bit little bit of her background, I complained to INEC that this woman was not going to be honest however they assured me that they profiled her. I\’m nonetheless shocked. What she has potrayed within the aftermath of her service or stewardship in Abia, signifies that proven fact that she is visibly pleased with what she did. Her degree of bias in that regard might be positioned in favour of a celebration. She has potrayed that she has one thing in the back of thoughts earlier than she got here.”

Watch a clip of him talking beneath