Alex Otti campaign decries plan by the opposition to arrest volunteers

The Alex Otti campaign has decried plans by the Peoples Democratic Party

(PDP) in Abia State to arrest all door-to-door volunteers soliciting for

votes and support for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)

governorship flag bearer. The campaign organization wondered when it

became a crime to ask for the personal details of prospective voters in a

bid to forging a bond with them before elections.
Otti is riding the crest wave of massive goodwill in Abia State ahead of

the polls and has been tipped to win the governorship race next month by a

range of political analysts.
“In what we consider a really bad joke taken too far, the PDP run Abia

State government has asked security agencies to arrest our door-to-door

volunteers who have been embarking on a quite legitimate task of

soliciting for votes from eligible voters in Abia State. The offence of

the volunteers, according to a cerebrally challenged government, is that

they “ask for personal details” of prospective voters during their

door-to-door visits across the State. When has it become an offence to pay

visits to people these days? Do we squeeze the details out of the

respondents at gun point? Why are the PDP and its puppeteer of a candidate

not embarking on door-to-door campaigns of their own?” a senior aide in

the Otti campaign organization queried.
The aide also said the door-to-door volunteers deploy the personal

information mined from prospective voters to keep up communication

channels with them because it is the best way to run a people oriented

campaign in a technologically savvy 21st century. “We are bent on running

a grass-root oriented campaign, whether the PDP and its goons like it or

not. Our candidate has established an emotional connection with the voting

population in Abia State and that emotive DNA runs throughout the campaign

structure. Ndi Abia have warmed up to us on this account and tender their

personal details without scruples because we have earned their trust in

the course of time and because they see us as partners in the task of

freeing Abia from the shackles of godfather leadership with its attendant

poor governance insignia”, the statement read.
The campaign also advised the security agencies not to allow themselves to

“become pawns in the chess game of the incumbent Governor and the cabal

who have held Abia State by the jugular for eight years and who have

stolen the State dry in the intervening period”.
“We expect our esteemed security personnel across Abia State to continue

to remain on the side of the people, the law and justice at all times”,

the statement concluded.
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