candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) for the November 16 Anambra State
election, has alleged that there are plans by the state government to rig the election.
Ngige hinged his allegation on the recent
distribution of 500 buses by the state
Governor, Peter Obi and the recruitment
exercise embarked upon by his administration.
The Senator, who has also unveiled his
blueprint for the state, said there was a
conscious move by the incumbent government to rig the forthcoming election, "hence we are using this medium to alert the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) and the good citizens of Anambra State in general."
Media Consultant to Ngige, Clementina Olomu,
who made this known in a statement, said the
allegation was based on an intelligence report available to the Ngige campaign office.
She contended that the buses were procured for the purpose of the election and would be
located at strategic positions all over the
state to be used to convey already marked
ballot papers in favour of the ruling party,
which would be handed over to INEC as the
votes collated from the different wards and
the polling booths.
Most especially in Anambra Central Senatorial district, where Ngige is currently the senator, it is to give the Anambra people the false impression that Ngige lost the election even in his on senatorial district," she added.
Olomu, however, said from all ramifications,
the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
administration has failed the people and had
only resorted to "projects that have been
regarded as Greek gift by the people of
Anambra State.
"Ironically, the people of Anambra are aware
that he has failed them completely and are not carried away by his Greek gift in the name of launching all sorts of projects. All these, they consider medicine after death," Olomu stated.
On his blueprint for the development of the
state, Ngige, while addressing the Anambra
business community in Lagos, said his return
to the Government House would enable him
complete the work he began in 2003.
Meanwhile, Olomu has decried what she
described as unwarranted attacks aimed at
running down the APC candidate in the run up
to the election.
In a statement in Awka, she said such attacks like the insinuation that Ngige had been deaf and dumb in his last two years in the Senate or that the revered traditional ruler of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe Nnaemeka, placed a curse on him smacked off hatred by opponents, who saw Ngige as the most credible candidate in the election.
They are running him down because he is the
most credible candidate in the election.
Take the APGA candidate, Willie Obiano, for
instance, he has not excelled in the banking
industry not to talk of handing a state.
What has he done in a unit of Fidelity Bank, when he was there to uplift it let alone the whole banking industry," she asked.
She said the reason they are attacking Ngige
transcends the election alone.
I discovered that it was not just for the
sake of the elections but because of the
things he achieved in the 34 months when he
served as governor, building durable roads,
upgrading hospitals and schools as well as
people-oriented bills he had sponsored as a
senator," she said.
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