I’m not desperate to be Anambra governor - Ngige

The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC in

last Saturday election in Anambra state, senator Chris Ngige Wednesday

declared that he was not desperate to be governor following alleged

rigging of the poll by some officials of the Independent National

Electoral Commission, INEC.

Addressing reporters in Awka on the inconclusive governorship election

declared by INEC, Ngige said he was not in the contest as a do or die

affair but that he wanted the correct thing to be done by the

electoral body.


” The election was fraught with massive electoral irregularities. The

electoral officers worked in connivance with the INEC to make sure

that electoral materials were delivered late at the polling units in

areas of my strong hold”.



Apart from that, Ngige said the most worrisome aspect was that in some

polling units in areas considered his strong hold, materials were

deposited there without any INEC official to accredit registered

voters for them to vote.


” The most unfortunate was that some students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe

University, NAU were brought in as polling officers with fake NYSC

uniforms against what INEC had told us that corps members would be

drawn from Anambra, Enugu and Delta states”.


Insisting that the poll was flawed ab initio, Ngige said that the

Resident Electoral commissioner, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu instead

of taking the electoral materials for the election from the airport

straight to the Central Bank in Awka, he took them, not accompanied by

any of our agents, straight to the commission.

He said there were instances where some police officers were caught on

video camera thump printing for APGA which he said showed the level of

irresponsibility that attended the election.

” I am depressed and sad for my country. I am one of those in the

Senate that said INEC should be given any amount of money to enable

them perform effectively. We have been deceived. Our hopes have been

dashed but I am not desperate to be governor. This election can not be

salvaged because of the number of people that were disenfranchised, who

could not choose the governor of their choice”.



source: nigerianeye