From Okey Sampson, Aba
Supporters of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) from the oil rich area of Asa in Ukwa West Local Government of Abia State, are hopeful that the party’s governorship candidate in the 2015 general elections, Dr. Alex Otti, would win at the Supreme Court.
Recall that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu had faulted the judgment of the Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State that nullified his election, and approached the Supreme Court to seek redress. In a prayer session held at Obehie, Ukwa West Local Government Area, the people described Otti’s victory at the Appeal Court as divine, stressing that the victory marked a new dawn for democracy in the area.
One of the coordinators, Chief Dominic Ofoji, said they organised the prayer session to thank God for Otti’s victory at the Appeal Court and to also ask Him to uphold the victory at the Supreme Court.
“This prayer session was organised by the people of Ukwa West Local Government of Abia State to give thanks to God and to celebrate the victory of Dr. Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) who was unanimously declared the winner of the April governorship election in Abia by a five-man Court of Appeal panel.”
“The prayer session was also used to ask God to uphold Otti’s victory at the Supreme Court.”
Earlier the APGA Local Government Chairman of Ukwa West, Chief Nduka Anyamele had explained that the prayer and thanksgiving service was to ask God to accomplish what he had started for the good people of Ukwa.
He regretted that development had continuously eluded the area despite being one of the oil producing areas, and prayed that God would use a God fearing leader like Alex Otti to rewrite their history.
The prayer and thanksgiving service saw the people march round the venue holding hands in a symbolic destruction of evil altars that had been holding the people down.
Leading the people in another round of prayer, the State Chairman of APGA Rev. Augustine Ehiemere told the audience that God had been provoked and that he had come to do a new thing in Abia through Alex Otti whom he described as a true child of God.
He regretted that the State had dwelt in darkness for too long because successive governments failed to give God his rightful place in the affairs of the state, and maintained that all the evil pillars erected in different parts of Abia, and for which peace and development had eluded the state would be dismantled.
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