All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Candidate, in the 2015 governorship election, in Abia state, Dr. Alex Otti, has urged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to seek forgiveness from God and the people of the state from the stealing of votes and violence he perpetrated rather than claiming to have forgiven him for contesting the election.
Otti who stated this while reacting to reports credited to the Ikpeazu at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Enugu, that he had forgiven and has been praying for those who thought he would not be governor including the APGA candidate, Dr. Otti.
In a statement signed by Media Assistant to Dr. Otti, Ferdinand Ekeoma, the APGA candidate accused Ikpeazu of not only ridiculing the office of governor which he occupies, but lacks of knowledge of democracy and principle of democratic contest by claiming that he had forgiven him for contesting for the 2015 governorship position of the state.
“Ikpeazu must be reminded that though he might have succeeded in deceiving some unsuspecting members of the Church where he spoke in Enugu and gave them the false impression of an innocent man whose emergence was an act of God, the truth remains that he didn’t succeed in deceiving the Omnipresent and the Omniscient God who knew what happened in Abia, neither would he succeed in deceiving Abians who know who they voted for.
“More bizarre is Gov. Ikpeazu’s claim of praying for Alex Otti and his reference to the size of his “God” and these were said in the house of God. He seemed to have forgotten some biblical injunctions like thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in Vain. Dr. Ikpeazu may have deceived people but he knows that there are two people he cannot deceive, himself and God. So, calling the name of God the way he did gives an impression that God can be mocked. We therefore refer him to Galatians 6:7,” the statement read in part.
Dr. Otti added that the people of the state are yet to recover from what he described as the shock of the unpopular Supreme Court judgment and has not forgiven the governor and his party, the PDP, for allegedly capturing the governorship seat through political brigandage.
“After being handpicked and imposed on his party as gubernatorial candidate, by his godfather, Theodore Orji, Ikpeazu automatically saw himself as the governor of Abia State and thus considered every other contest as a useless exercise and every other contestant as an enemy, hence the display of primitive bitterness against Dr. Otti during and after the election.
“While Ikpeazu pretentiously continues to put up his cosmetic mien of humility and seriousness, his numerous actions and utterances leave no one in doubt about his unwillingness to repent of his sins and receive genuine forgiveness from God, Alex Otti and Abians, so that he could cease to be an unpopular governor whose governorship legitimacy and acceptability revolves only around the PDP cabal milking Abia dry. By claiming to have forgiven Dr. Alex Otti who was a victim of his politics of hatred, violence, clannishness, machetes and coffins, Dr. Ikpeazu merely exposed himself as a diehard apostle of political barbarism.”
The APGA candidate urged Ikpeazu to face governance by tackling the increasing cases of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state and payment of the arrears of salaries owed workers.
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