One of the major actors in the election, which was widely condemned as “flawed” and “shameful”, described the election as a “disaster”.
Dr. Chris Ngige, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, said: “We have on tape a policeman thumb printing for APGA and INEC officials running away with election materials.”
Ngige was angry as he spoke at a press conference in Awka, the state capital. He said: “This INEC used students instead of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to starve us of election materials. All the electoral officers were all compromised, like the one in Idemili North who deliberately acted on the orders of INEC and APGA.
“Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka here were used as poll clerks just to find fault in APC and to favour their lecturer, Dr. Nkem Okeke, who ran as deputy to the APGA candidate in the election.
“Much more astonishing is that they wore NYSC uniforms because of the election and when they are taught how to perfect fraud, somebody will tell Nigerians that this country will be good. This is the disposition of the personnel that came to work in the election.”
Ngige urged INEC chairman Jega to call for the list of the Adhoc staff who worked during the election. “I do not want anybody to favour me or my party APC. Apart from the people from Calabar, every other person that worked during the election had affiliation with APGA,” Ngige alleged.
Ngige said APC members had computed that over 600,000 people were denied their voting rights, adding that the 210 units being allocated by INEC to them for the “so-called” supplementary election were not enough.
He added that the 16 local government areas being claimed by INEC as places where elections were cancelled was not true. APC, he said, knows that election did not take place in 20 local government areas.
Ngige said: “INEC on Sunday came up with what it called supplementary election. The votes allocated to APC during the so-called election on Sunday were fake because we did not participate.
“Our stand is clear. The election was fraught with intimidation, with thuggery, with disenfranchisement of our voters and total partisanship by the electoral body.”
He was disappointed in the system.
Said Ngige: “If it were a bazaar, it would have been a different thing and APC would have prepared for it, but we were told by INEC and the President of this country, Goodluck Jonathan, that it would be free, fair and credible. But it was not the case.
“Because they told us that they were ready for the election, that was why we conformed to it because we thought that those errors and mistakes had been corrected in the voter register, without knowing that it was a deceit.”
In his view, “the election was a systematic way to deal with the opposition parties in this state, especially APC, and the same thing happened in 2011 during my senatorial election.”
He blamed it all on Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, who accused of adopting “the same tricks he used in 2011 by adopting his APGA system to dislodge Ngige and APC.” “To my mind, the election was flawed ab-initio,” Ngige said.
He added: “I am a statesman in this country. I have never gone to INEC to seek for favour. For Jega who everybody regards as a man of honour and integrity to sit back and allow his office to be messed up by those without honour, I’m really amased.
“Jega is an activist like myself and I do not support injustice. I’m injured and pained that this kind of atrocity is happening in his time and I also have difficulty in absolving him. What has happened in Anambra State is a disaster.
“I am sad for my country. I have lost hope in the entire process. People’s hopes are being dashed. I’m not desperate to become a governor. I have been there before now. The people of the state have lost hope in INEC,” Ngige said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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People of the state did not vote for you Mr ngige. Accept defeat and stop crying over spilt milk. You have not produced the tape you say you have and you have also refused to acknowledge the fact that you also tried to rig the election in your own way but failed woefully. Maybe your leader Senator Ahmed tinubu did not reveal to you all the techniques he uses to rig in Lagos state or prob those methods only work in Lagos as can be seen in the failure to capture Ondo and Anambra state. Truth is i dont see people of Anambra crying foul that they dont want the Apga winner as their Governor. Besides morally you shouldnt be contesting any election again in nigeria since you were once found guilty of rigging one to become Governor. What goes around comes around they say....
ReplyDeletealways crying foul. you even came 3rd.After the rerun, you will come 4th
ReplyDeleteNgige let the election be conducted 100x Ndi Anambra will continue to reject you.
ReplyDeleteMallam bayo Ngige,u will win nxt time .
ReplyDeletesorry mr ngige, its over
ReplyDeleteha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........... I beg una go kill me o o o o, sorry sir, wait for the next generation to come, it is all game, that is politics for you, you played it in the past it is now over, stop wasting your money on this game, if i were you i will go and rest
ReplyDeleteMr Ngige or wat did u call urself,U hav lost the election and now complaining of rigging,didn't u remember wat goes around somes around,U once admited 2 hav rigged election 2 become Governor of amambra before peter obi,u also rigged the senatorial election when u cheated dora akinluyi now ur rigging didn't work and u are crying foul,2 heal with u
ReplyDeleteMallam HABIB NGIGE, SORRY better luck next time. Mai GEMU with MUMU APC.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Ngige and Lai Mohamed would have said, if say PDP win Anambra election, may be they would have motivated for another seven governors to rebel against PDP. criminals in the hide-out!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNgige is our Governor. D people of d state wants him to be our Govnor. Peter Obi is a frandstar in S/Africa b4 becomin Govnor n av defrauded our State n yet wants to continue,God forbid! Inec pls giv us Ngige.
ReplyDeleteNgige ,Don't you remember how you stole Anambra governoship mandate in 2003? Why didn't you come out publicly to declare that your party PDP then rigged the election, if you love Anambra as you claimed?
ReplyDeleteThe election result did not say that Anambra people wants Ngige. Let the sleeping dog lie
ReplyDeleteYou alleged that inec ran away with elevation materials when the materials have always been in their custody. The allegation does not fly. Please accept defeat
ReplyDeleteNgige, you are once a governor? what goes around comes around, did you remember then at Umueze Uga, Esele's village where your election was been rigged, ask me how, i will tell you. You are carrying now ntoooooo!!!
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