Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has said residents of the state will not be intimidated by people bent on rigging the 2027 governorship election.
Otti warned that those planning to subvert the will of Abia voters by writing election results to ‘write their will’.
The governor stated this during a monthly meeting with journalists at the Government House in Umuahia, the state capital, on Thursday.
Otti, who won the 2023 governorship election on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), is currently in his first term of four years in office.
Meanwhile, political activist and co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, Aisha Yesufu, also backed calls for capital punishment for election riggers in Nigeria.
Yesufu expressed her support in a post on her verified X handle on Friday, reacting to Abia State Governor Alex Otti’s recent statement recommending severe sanctions against perpetrators of electoral malpractice.
She wrote, “You see that thing that is reported that Alex Otti said ‘anybody planning to rig election should first write their will,’ is the mentality Nigerians should have!”
Reiterating her stance, Yesufu added, “I have repeatedly said anyone that rigs election should be treated as a terrorist.”