The Abia State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Alex Otti has urged the residents of the state to maintain their composure while urging the Independent National Electoral Commission to swiftly complete its review and announce the results of the elections.

Addressing a media briefing in Abuja, on Tuesday, Dr Otti urged INEC to rely only on the results using the BVAS and posted on its IREV, he noted that the ruling People’s Democratic Party posted 80,000 votes from Obingwa but the reality as exposed by the BVAS is not more than 30,000.

Alex Otti said, “The numbers they brought in from two local governments kept changing because they weren’t sure with which margin we were leading.

“They held INEC staff, hostage, for 36 hours. And at some point, the figures they were doctoring were changing.

“When they thought they have got the right figures, they wrote 86,000 for Obingwa and tried to push it in the collation officer resisted them they kept him and he had to sign under duress for his safety.

“Two local governments were used in an attempt to rig the election. One of them is Isialangwa North where the PDP Candidate comes from and the other one was Obingwa where the current Governor comes from.

“On that day, mayhem was unleashed and every attempt was made to rig the election people resisted them and at the end of the day, the Obingwa collation Centre located at the Local Government Headquarters, was under siege by armed men, thugs, miscreants and all sorts of human beings.

“They made attempts first to bring in doctored results to the collation Centre they were resisted by our agents.

“What they did was to descend heavily on the major agent of Labour Party and beat him to pulp he passed out, they took him out of the collation Centre and left him for dead. George Chidozie is his name, he is a medical doctor. As we speak, he is lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital in Abia.”

The Labour Party flag bearer has won a total of 10 out of the 16 Local Government Area results so far declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before the commission suspended collation of the Abia Governorship election while the PDP won 5 LGA.