OUTSTED GOV IKPEAZU GETS BACKING FROM OTHER EASTERN WARLORDS AS WABARA ORJI OGBULAFOR AND OTHERS SPEAK FOR HIM

Abia: Wabara, Orji, Ogbulafor, others back Ikpeazu 

Previous Senate president, Adolphus Wabara, previous Governor of Abia state, Theodore Orji and previous Chairman of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and also other prominent senior citizens and customary rulers in Abia state have tossed in their full backing for Governor Okezie Ikpeazu taking after the governorship emergency that has threw a desolate shadow on the state. In a report issued to newsmen in Abuja on Monday, the gathering depicted the request by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court Abuja coordinating INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to Mr. Uche Ogah as unreasonable and heedless. Onyema Ugochukwu, who read the dispatch to newsmen recognized the convenient intercession of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami which got quiet the state. It read: "We, the concerned older folks of Abia State, stressed by the advancements in the most recent five days which debilitated to dive our State into disorder, savagery and carnage, met today in Abuja to audit the circumstance" "We inspected the judgment of Justice Okon Abang, which was the start of the deplorable emergency and INEC's choice to issue a declaration of come back to our child Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah, which choice exacerbated the emergency. "We arrived at the conclusion, collectively, that Justice Abang's request to issue an authentication of come back to somebody who never challenged the governorship race against the Electoral Act and surely understood choices of prevalent courts was unreasonable and careless and we denounce it completely." "We have additionally noticed the unseeming flurry of INEC to issue the declaration only a couple of hours after the Justice Abang request, and despite the way that INEC had been appropriately presented with a notification of claim of the said request and the movement for a stay of execution. "We are concerned by the impression made of a scheme including INEC to toss Abia into perplexity and insurgency. "We censure in exceptionally solid terms the endeavor to set Abia ablaze and make a circumstance which can just intensify the issues which our nation is at present bringing a conclusion to brutality in the North East and Niger Delta. "We have likewise noted with gratefulness the mediation of the Attorney General of the Federation, Malami, who hosts asked all gatherings to take after the principle of law and hold up the finish of procedures in the redrafting courts. "We participate in this claim for peace and urge all gatherings required in this matter to quiet down and anticipate the finish of matters at the courts." "We additionally laud our kin, the general population of Abia who have stayed tranquil notwithstanding late incitements. We ask them to stay cool and keep up the peace as we hold up the courts to finish up their procedures", they said. The individuals who went to the meeting which was held at the Asokoro home of Prince Vincent Ogbulafo in Abuja were striking Abia seniors and conventional rulers among who are all the present serving Abia Senators including Former Governor, Theodore Orji, (Abia Central,) Mao Ohuabunwa, (Abia North,) Enyi Abaribe, (Abia South). Others are Senator Adolfus Wabara, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, HRH, Eze Ngozi Marthias Nwoko, Professor S.O. Igwe, Hon. Uzoma Nkem Abonta, and Professor Herbert O. Orji. Different rulers present at the meeting incorporate, HRH Eze J O Akaliro, HRH Eze Dr. Eberechi Dick and HRH Eze P M Okponku, amongst different identities.

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