The governor is widely disregarded by traders in Abia State because of his indifference to their plight in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state. He was on his way to Owerri Airport en route to Abuja when traders, who heard the siren of his motorcade, trooped out to the road, armed with bags of sachet water, jeered and booed him, shouting, “Onye-oshi vote, Onye-oshi vote,” meaning one that steals votes.
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According to The Sun, Orji was suspected to be travelling to Abuja to pressurise the electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to have the state’s governorship election, already declared inconclusive, declared in his favour.
Orji and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), allegedly hijacked the electoral process when the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was comfortably coasting to to victory.
Some of the traders, including Chinedu Nwankwo, James Orakwue and Kingsley Maduagwu, said it was worrisome that Governor Orji and his son, Chinedu, could be wasting billions of public funds on the INEC to win their elections as legislators and impose their surrogate on the people, when workers and pensioners were owed several months of salaries and pensions.
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Meanwhile, the INEC has fixed the Abia state governorship election re-run for the 25th of April 2015.