Anambra guber election: REC says Ngige is not sincere

The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra State, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu says All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate in the gubernatorial elections,  Senator  Chris Ngige,  is not sincere.

Professor Onukogu in reaction to a statement by Ngige to the effect that Professor Onukogu could not be trusted to conduct a free and fair election going by his conduct in the 2011 elections, said: “Apart from the fact that Chris himself is not sincere, Chris is one who would want to manipulate the system.”

He spoke with Saharareporter Television.
According to Onukogu, the APPC candidate  not being objective when he described him as partial since his state is the only one which has had more than 3 different political parties winning seats in the national and state assembly.  The INEC Commissioner debunked assertions that there was low voter turnout as a result of heavy military and police presence in the state during the voting exercise.

“There has been an inherent voter apathy in Anambra State. Anambra State is one state in the country where moneybags hijack the electoral system and try to manipulate the electoral system to suit themselves”, he said.

He said politicians in Anambra state are noted for issuing empty promises in a bid to win elections and fail to deliver afterwards. According to him, the voters have began seeing through politicians tricks and have thus reacted by not turning up to vote at all, leading to the low turnout.   He said the turnout this year was actually better than that 2011, an election he also conducted.

You can listen to the full interview on saharareporters.tv