The attention of the Uche Ndi Abia Campaign Council has been drawn to a poll conducted by the NOI Polls which made unrealistic and incredible permutations on the 2023 governorship elections in Abia state.
And having carefully examined the process of the poll commissioned by ANAP Foundation which gave the Labour Party an imaginary win in the yet-to-be-conducted governorship election in Abia state, over the widely accepted candidacy of the PDP’s Prof Uche Ikonne by an evidently biased political analyst and armchair opinionist Dr. Atedo Peterside.
We want to make it categorically clear that the poll was manipulated using dubious and unreliable statistics and will rightly be described as irresponsible, unscientific, biased, and therefore lacking in verifiable political realities on the ground in Abia state, if elections are conducted in Abia state today Prof Elaezar Uche Ikonne of the PDP will overwhelmingly win the governorship election because of his popularity, acceptability and reach which the other candidates do not have.
The president and Founder of ANAP Foundations Dr. Atedo Peterside, a bosom friend and colleague of Dr. Alex Otti, the Labour party candidate has chosen his preferred candidate and has decided to use fake, unverifiable, and dubious statistics to package him to the Abia electorates who had on various occasions rejected him.
We, therefore, use this medium to fault the process and results of the poll while querying the sampling method used in arriving at the obviously flawed, unverifiable, and concocted data.
The poll is deceptive, manipulated, dubious, biased, and lacking in all the basics of a poll and should be disregarded.
Is it not absurd and unimaginable to allocate an imaginary win to the LP governorship candidate in the Abia South zone of the state where the incumbent governor who is of the Peoples Democratic Party, a ranking serving Senator Dr. Enyinnaya Abaribe who is now of the APGA, foremost and highly influential industrialist Chief Chris Nkwonta also of the PDP, The Abia PDP state Chairman Dr. Asiforo Okere hail from, a zone where we have no single prominent LP stalwart, what statistics did NOI use to arrive at Dr. Otti having a tie with Prof Ikonne whose personality, profile, accomplishments, and acceptability is very towering and intimidating in Abia Central Senatorial Zone?
We challenge ANAP Foundation to display empirical demographics that were used to allocate The Abia South Senatorial zone where Otti has serially lost in the past the imaginary majority win, Otti is an Aro from Arochukwu in Abia North and we have Ukwala Ngwa sons in the persons of Prof. Uche Ikonne, Engr Enyinnaya Nwafor, and Bishop Emeka Nwankpa in the race.
While we are not perturbed by the oblique nature of the poll having knowledge of a record of the previous polls conducted by Dr. Atedo Peterside’s ANAP Foundations prior to the 2015 presidential election, which had projected victory for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, we want to make it clear that the poll is bogus and an attempt to create the impression that Dr. Alex Otti has chances of succeeding, when the reality on the ground is totally different.
Otti as of today has lost political steam and is only struggling to climb on the back of Dr. Peter Obi to once again gain political visibility but if he thinks that manipulating online poll results will sway Abians who had severally rejected him then he should go back to the drawing board because PDP remains the strongest and the only acceptable party in Abia and Abians will vote for Prof Uche Ikonne in as their governor.
Uche Aguoru
Director E-Media/Publicity
Uche Ndi Abia Campaign Organization
10/11/2022
