Key players of the Anambra State Government have been accused by the INEC official arrested yesterday, as being the ones responsible for bribing him to influence the results of the election. State police allegedly traced a N60.5 Million bribe to Anambra government house.
ADC to governor Obi has been ordered by the police to write a statement relating to supervising of bribe money for election.
Candidates of PDP Labour and APC describe election as a farce with INEC Chairman Jega confirming to the media that a high ranking INEC official “was compromised”. Anambra made history as number of invalidated votes came 2nd after the candidate of the ruling party APGA.
APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, this morning, urged INEC to come clear on how the election was sabotaged. It accused INEC of not taking seriously the opinions of Anambra residents as well as local and foreign observers that most of the registered voters in the state were disenfranchised during the election. The party said, ”First, the electoral commission proposed make-up election in only 65 polling units in Obosi before scaling things up to a supplementary election in 208 polling units ‘in those areas where election was cancelled’. But we say, without equivocating, that a total cancellation of the election and the organization of a fresh poll, under the supervision of a credible Resident Electoral Commissioner, will be acceptable to our party.”
It is not enough for INEC’s Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to tell the nation that an INEC official sabotaged the election in a certain part of the state, he must tell the nation who this fellow is, who he/she is working for, what is the extent of the damage he/she has done to this and previous elections, and whether or not he/she has access to the commission’s database of voters’ register, which was apparently tampered with for Saturday’s election.”
Prof. Jega must also tell Nigerians why 16 Electoral Commissioners, who migrated to Anambra days before the election ostensibly to supervise things, could not ensure the success of an election in a single state, when even a polling unit behind the INEC office in Awka did not get voting materials till after 9am on election day.”
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