Nnenna Oti, the Returning Officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abia State, has described her experience in the just ended governorship election.
According to newsmen, despite the delay and worry in revealing the state results, Oti stayed firm, maintaining that the people’s votes will be counted.
“I shall stand solidly and unapologetically on these ideals,” she declared as she announced the outcome.
The people’s votes and mandate will be upheld.
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“The pastor and the mother in me will not permit me to do anything that will adversely affect the future of our children”
According to the INEC findings, Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) defeated his opponents Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party (YPP) with 175, 467 votes.
In a video that went viral, faculty and students at the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Owerri, accorded Nnenna Oti a hero’s welcome back to the institution on Tuesday.
Others were spotted dancing and singing songs while holding a banner that read, “Welcome back Nnenna Oti, Heroine of Nigeria Democracy.”
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Nnenna explained in one of the recordings how some political parties came with threats, money, and intimidation, but she refused to be moved.
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