Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- The Abia State Government has dismissed a report that Governor Alex Otti has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as fake.

A Facebook page published the fake article on 19 October, claiming that Mr Otti announced at a press conference in Umuahia that day that he had defected from the Labour Party (LP) to the ruling APC.

The fake article quoted the governor as saying, "I have seen the direction the APC is heading, and I strongly believe the party means well for Nigeria and for our people, Ndi-Igbo."

A day after it was published, the Abia State Government issued a statement advising the public to disregard it.

"The report is nothing but a fabrication by political propagandists who are unsettled by the gove...