ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP POLLS: INEC performed creditably, says APGA Chairman

All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) National Chairman Chief Victor Umeh, has dismissed allegations that the Saturday governorship election in Anambra State was marred by irregularities.


On the contrary, he hailed the efforts of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, which he said, forestalled the plan by the opposition parties in the state to rig the election.
Umeh said the security agencies stopped the opposition parties in their tracks and that accounted for the allegations.
He said the election was free, fair, and violence free.
Umeh denied that his party was helped to rig the governorship election in Anambra.
He said INEC lived up to its promise to conduct free, fair and peaceful governorship poll.
“Other political parties were crying foul because their plot to rig this election was frustrated by the vigilance of the security agents.”
“People who in their usual characteristics would want to rig the election could not this time, rather they
started disparaging INEC and security agencies in order to discredit the poll.
“The performance of APGA in the election was not unusual as they have campaign in the past two months.
“I am surprised that some candidates who did not campaign were making spirited efforts to discredit the election even when they know that there was no way they could have won the election,” he added.
He alleged that the Interim Deputy National Secretary of the APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai attempted to rig the Anambra State governorship election.
The APGA national chairman also said that the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory deserved the in-house detention he got from men of the State Security Service.
The SSS officials had prevented him from leaving the hotel where he lodged on election day.
“If he (El-Rufai) hadn’t any ulterior motive on that election day, why then would he want to monitor an election in which he had no accreditation,” said Umeh.
He said, “Yesterday (Saturday) was election, it wasn’t campaign time, so what had he come to do in Anambra State if not to perfect his rigging plans and then implement them.
“He came all the way from Katsina State to constitute a nuisance here and he was confined to his room, the way all other criminals who came for the same purpose were confined to their room.”

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