Saturday, 30 November 2013
ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: WILLIE OBIANO DECLARED WINNER BY INEC AMIST PROTEST FROM APC.
Amist
voter apathy and protests that followed the November 16 governorship election
and the supplementary election in Anambra State, the candidate of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Willie Obiano, has been declared winner.
The agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour
Party (LP) governorship candidates in the Anambra State governorship election
were conspicuously absent at the supplementary election held in 209 polling
units across 16 local government areas, yesterday.
This is just as the poll was visited by poor voter turnout in
most areas.
In most areas where the elections took place, low voters turnout
was apparent though electoral materials from the Independent National Electoral
commission (INEC) arrived relatively early unlike what obtained last Saturday,
whereby late arrival of material threatened the polls in some polling units.
However,
the trio of Senator Chris Ngige of the APC; Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah of the Labour
Party and Comrade Tony Nwoye of the PDP have described the low turnout as a
justification of their calls for the cancellation of the election.
Though the three parties had stated that they would not
participate in the election, some of their members were seen around polling
units. At the Polling Unit 016, Igweamaka Primary School, Aguluzoigbo, members
of the APC including the chairman of the party in the local government, who
refused to disclose his name, said that they were there to monitor the process
not to participate while at the Polling Unit 006 and 007, Chukwurah Primary
School, Abatete, agents of the PDP and the LP were seen participating in the
election.
In Idemili North Local Government Area, which has the highest
number of registered voters, turnout at many polling units reflected that only
11 to 17 voters had showed up to vote.
Similarly, in one of the polling units at Oyi Local Government,
Sunday Tribune gathered that nine voters showed up to vote out of about 3,000
registered voters, with people in Onitsha North and Onitsha South council areas
people opening their shops and going about their respective businesses.
Reacting to the poor turnout Senator Ngige told reporters that
it was an indication that the electorate has lost hope in the electoral
process, adding that the electorate couldn’t have turned up to vote in view of
the charade of November 16, 2013.
In the same vein, Media Aide to Dr. Ubah, Mr. Afam Ilouno told
newsmen that “you do not need anything more to convince INEC and Nigerians that
Anambra people have been raped. They shown that they have no confidence in what
is going on and it is expected that the electoral commission should learn a
lesson by starting all over again.”
Tribune
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