The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Andy Uba has challenged the incumbent governor of Anambra State to come out clean if he was not culpable in the alledged $4 million bribe to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) senior official to compromise November 6 governorship election results.
The deal was struck in the night, according to media reports.
Though, the governor was not named, but Senator Andy Uba’s campaign organization called on Governor Willy Obiano to clear the air if he was wasn’t the one trying to compromise the forthcoming governorship in Anambra State.
In a statement on Monday by the Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation (SAUGCO) which was signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene on Monday in Awka expressed disappointment that the security agents didn’t swing into action immediately.
The organisation in the statement highly suspected that governor Willie Obiano was involved in the alledged bribe, noting that his sealed lips after 48 hours the incident was reported in the media was even more suspicious.
“Since the scandal blew open, neither Governor Willy Obiano nor his Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba, have mustered the nerves to utter a single word in response, despite clear and unassailable indications that, indeed, the governor at the centre of the bribery saga is the Anambra State helmsman.
“Instead of coming clean on the allegations, as it affects it, the Obiano administration has rather chosen to divert attention, by engaging third parties and social media miscreants under its payroll to engage in a wild goose chase over who the alleged governor and his spouse are.
“Besides the $4 million bribe money, the newspaper report also made mention of ‘the wife of the politician, who is described as an influential and powerful first lady in the Southeast(who) is reported to have been meeting secretly with many electoral officers, EOs, who are key to the forthcoming election.
“In the face of the puerile attempts to divert attention from Mrs Ebele Obiano as the First Lady in issue, we hasten to raise the following posers:
Which First Lady in the Southeast is reputed to freely dish out slaps to aides and government functionaries?
“Which First Lady did her husband openly address as ‘Her Excellency, the Governor’ in a viral video?
“Which First Lady is known to vet government appointments before release?
“Which First Lady chastised her husband’s deputy, to the point of compelling him to defect to another political party, simply because she took umbrage at him paying a private visit to a prominent son of the state?”
“The evidence against the governor’s breach of his oath of office and public trust is strong but he is still protected under the immunity clause, but we will see what happens once his immunity elapses.”
“Of all the governors of the Southeast, whose immunity is due to expire soon? Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra state, of course.
“We, therefore, call on our nation’s security agencies not to lend credence to current boasts within government circles in Awka, that the bribery saga would fizzle out in a matter of days.
“On our part, we call on the media, civil society organisations and anti-graft agencies to beam their searchlights on the burgeoning crisis, which is capable of tainting the outcome of the Anambra governorship election, if not nipped in the bud.”
Moreso, 48 hours after the report, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was yet to issue a statement countering the allegation or otherwise.
CAPITAL POST could not confirm if the electoral umpire was carrying out its own administrative investigation into the matter to unravel the senior staff that was involved in the alledged scandal before filing this report.
