The Chairman of the Abia State chapter of the Labour Party (LP), Emmanuel Otti, has debunked the rumours that Governor Alex Otti worked against the party in the last council poll.
Naija News recall that the ruling party in the state lost to candidates of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in the local government election conducted in the state.
Otti, in an interview with Punch, when asked how he feels about Governor Otti asking his supporters to vote for any candidate they believed would deliver good governance, said, “First, let me correct an impression. Dr Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State, did not and cannot authorise his supporters (to contest under a different party), knowing that he is a member of the Labour Party, and he is the governor of Abia State and a leader of the LP in Abia State and Nigeria.
“Therefore, he cannot and would not authorise or mandate his supporters to go to another party, either to promote or to contest. Rather, he said that the electorate…