The All Progressives Congress, APC, Anambra State Chapter has called for cancellation of the Saturday’s governorship election in which it fully participated with the results currently being collated.
The party which has Senator Andy Uba as its governorship candidate made the call on Sunday, given that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) which has the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Soludo as its candidate is leading.
APC, embarrassed by glaringly losing the election, has issued a statement which was signed by the State Chapter of the party, Chief Basil Ejidike complained that the exercise was fraught with manipulation by the State governor, Mr. Willie Obiano.
CAPITAL POST reports that the call was made amid the collation of results by officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who are still accepting the results from their collation officers.
APC said: “What is happening in Anambra is never an election but big time electoral fraud and malpractice. We want the whole world to hear our voice that we will never accept the outcome of the Anambra Gubernatorial election.
“The candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the sitting Governor Willie Obiano manipulated the whole electoral system and we’ll stand to resist it.
“Ndi Anambra wants an APC Governor and there’s nothing anyone can do to deny them that opportunity. We virtually won in all the local government but Willie Obiano and Charles Soludo through instrumentality corrupt minded INEC officers subverted the whole process in favour of APGA.
“We want INEC to cancel the election and fix a date for a fresh election devoid of manipulations and malpractices. But if INEC goes ahead to announce the results, we will definitely challenge the election process at the court of law, up-to Supreme Court. Nobody can intimidate us.”
As at the time of the statement which was obtained by CAPITAL POST in Awka, 15 Local Governments results have been declared with APGA winning 14.
