Vexed by the apparent bad faith displayed by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State over last week’s judgment of the Court of Appeal Court which pronounced Mr. Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), a pro-democracy non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has cautioned the embattled Abia State governor to stop frittering public fund in the current destabilisation campaign.

“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abia State chapter must borrow a leaf from the erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan who exited voluntarily after conceding victory to President Muhammadu Buhari soon after the presidential election in March of last year, it said.”

Asking Ikpeazu to accept the Appeal Court’s decision in good faith, the rights group affirmed thus: “The Appeal Court, Owerri division has exercised its constitutional powers to invalidate the erroneous inauguration of Ikpeazu as governor of Abia State and has returned Otti as the validly elected governor. It is criminal for Ikpeazu to allegedly deploy state funds to prosecute street’s warfare by paying to galvanise organised chaos in major towns of Abia State in artificially arranged protest against a subsisting and binding judgment.”

HURIWA in a statement jointly signed its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, accused the Abia State legislature of behaving like a rubberstamp contraption.

“The House of Assembly of Abia State must stop behaving like house boys to Ikpeazu by sitting up and exercising its legislative powers to stop the wrong deployment of Abia State public fund to hire thugs to create unruly behaviours all over the state. The Abia people and leading stakeholders must speak out on principle and caution the embattled governor who has been legally dethroned to stop doing things that will make the state ungovernable for the rightfully elected governor. The embattled governor should peacefully and constructively proceed with his appeal at the Supreme Court rather than indirectly sponsoring charlatans and never- do -wells to pour out on the streets and constitute nuisances to law abiding citizens. These choreographed protests are not spontaneous but organically organised and financially induced by persons with access to slush funds because our sources within intelligence and security sector told us that the participants were procured by elements within the PDP in Abia State.”

The group said in as much as it backs the constructive exercise of the fundamental freedoms of free and peaceful assembly and of speech guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution (as amended), it added that these seemingly chaotic protests in Abia are procured by someone who has lost out in the court of competent jurisdiction and is fanatically determined to seat tight in the juicy office of governor and would rather than give up peacefully would prefer to create an atmosphere of social chaos to make the environment ungovernable for his successor who indeed has been pronounced the winner of the majority of the votes cast in the March 2015 governorship poll in which the heavily compromised and corrupt electoral commission stole away and handed over to the PDP.

HURIWA challenged the embattled governor to dissociate himself from the thugs causing chaos now on the streets of Abia State in the guise of rejection of the Appeal Court’s verdict if he has nothing to do with the demonstrations.

HURIWA said: “While we don’t oppose civil protests which indeed constitute the soul of democracy, these organised protests must not be allowed to degenerate to lawlessness to make the political atmosphere ungovernable for Otti who ought to be sworn in as ordered by the Court of Appeal in a landmark verdict.

“We congratulate the Appeal Court in Owerri Imo State for resisting all pressures mounted in the media by the embattled Abia State governor to scuttle the dispensation of justice in this election petition. Peace must reign in Abia State whether Governor Ikpeazu stays or goes.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/stop-sponsoring-chaos-in-abia-huriwa-tell-ikpeazu/229438/

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who are those scumbags ranting under the disguise of Human shit nonsense when they should be condemning and rebuking the unfair and biased judgement inorder to restore the sanctity of our judicial system.Don't worry, Victor remain Victor come what may.Dr. Okezie Victor Ipkeazu shall certainly be victorious

this one na noise shaaa OVI is still on that seat

This HURIWA of a thing are just fools of high portfolios. First class idiotic ignoramus dickheads.
That short devil called Alex Otti must have paid you to spew out this trash here. Do you have an evidence to prove that Gov. Ikpeazu paid all of them to leave their businesses for street protest?
I now see that you all reason through your anus.
It's because of people like you that social media bill nearly got passed.
One may want to know why am vexed up so much. The reason is this, why must they call our mothers, brothers, fathers, sisters, friends “charlatans and never- do -wells” because they chose to exercise their right via peaceful protest.
That you have a freedom of speech does not give you the guts to insult people.
Majority of the protesters have achieved more than you've ever dreamt of.
Thunder fire you, f*cking , asslicking, scallywags.
All those behind this trash will ever remain charlatans and never- do -wells unless they change and ask God for forgiveness.