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Anambra guber: Andy Uba rejects results

Two days after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Chukwuma Soludo, as the winner of the Anambra State governorship election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the results.

This was made known in the statement issued yesterday in Abuja by spokesperson for Uba’s campaign organisation, Amb Jerry Ugokwe. According to him, the results did not reflect the wishes of the people of Anambra State. Ugokwe said, “The Senator Andy Uba Campaign Organisation has rejected the results of the just-concluded Anambra State governorship election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“The outcome of the election was a charade and did not reflect the wishes of the people of Anambra State. “Our popular candidate, Senator Andy Uba, is a victim of widespread electoral fraud and manipulation by INEC in cahoots with the Willie Obiano regime and the security forces deployed to oversee the election.

“The elections were characterised by widespread irregularities, intimidation and voter suppression in order to clear the path for the inglorious ‘victory’ of APGA in the polls.” Arguing that the APC candidate who came a distance third in the election was rigged out, Ugokwe said: “For instance, in polling units where the Biometric Voter Accreditation System malfunctioned, INEC went ahead to conduct the election manually. There were numerous cases where votes announced by INEC exceeded the number of accredited voters in the polling units. “Another clear manifestation of collusion between the Obiano administration and INEC was the publishing of results on social media handles of APGA even before official announcement by INEC. Yet, mysteriously, the votes announced in advance by APGA always corresponded correctly with the official figures released by INEC.

“It is inconceivable that our candidate, who polled over 200,000 votes in the APC primary election would be allocated a slightly above 43,000 votes by INEC. “It is surprising that APGA that lost almost 80 per cent of its stalwarts through defection to the APC before the election came out ‘victorious’. A sitting APGA deputy governor, seven members of the House of Representatives, 10 members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, the APGA party’s member of Board of Trustees, many serving SA’s, SSA’s, in addition to a serving PDP Senator all defected to the APC very timely before the election, yet APGA emerged ‘victorious’. This is quite ridiculous. “From all indications, the only people remaining in APGA at the time of the election were Governor Obiano and his household and a few staff of Government House as well as Prof. Soludo and his household, but the majority of the electorate in Anambra State have moved to the APC.

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