The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the just concluded Anambra governorship election, Senator Andy Uba has rejected the result of the poll as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Uba, who came a distant third in the election described the outcome of the election as “a charade and did not reflect the wishes of the people of Anambra state.”
In a statement issued by his campaign organisation on Thursday, the former senator who lost even his local government to Professor Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA alleged that “he’s is a victim of widespread electoral fraud and manipulation by INEC in cohorts with the Willie Obiano regime and the security forces deployed to oversee the Anambra State Governorship Election.”
The statement which was signed on behalf of the campaign organisation, Ambassador Jerry Ugokwe, said: “The elections were characterised by widespread irregularities, intimidation and voter suppression in order to clear the path for the inglorious ‘victory’ of APGA in the polls.
“For instance, in polling units where the Biometric Voters’ Accreditation System malfunctioned, INEC went ahead to conduct the elections manually. There were numerous cases where votes announced by INEC exceeded the number of accredited voters in polling units.
“Another clear manifestation of collusion between the Obiano Administration and INEC was the publishing of results on the Social Media handles of APGA even before official announcement by INEC. Yet mysteriously, the votes announced in advance by APGA always corresponded correctly with the official figures released by INEC.
“It is inconceivable that our candidate, who polled over 200,000 votes in the APC primary election would be allocated a slightly above 43,000 votes by INEC.
“It is surprising that APGA that lost almost 80% of its stalwarts through defection to the APC before the election came out ‘victorious’. A sitting APGA Deputy Governor, seven members of the House of Representatives, 10 members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, the APGA party’s member of Board of Trustees, many serving SA’s, SSA’s, in addition to a serving PDP Senator all defected to the APC very timely before the election, yet APGA emerged ‘victorious’. This is quite ridiculous!”
According to the statement, the only people remaining in APGA at the time of the election were Governor Obiano and his household and a few staff of the Government House as well as Prof. Soludo and his household but majority of the electorates in Anambra state have moved to the APC
“There was definitely no way the carcass of APGA could have defeated the APC without the active collusion and manipulation by INEC and the Obiano Administration.
Uba’s position is coming 24 hours after the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, the candidates of the PDP and YPP, Valentine Ozigbo and Ifeanyi Ubah congratulated the winner of the poll.
Also, the leader of the APC in Anambra State, and former governor, Dr. Chris Ngige has congratulated Soludo. Even the UK government thanked INEC for the transparency in the conduct of the poll.
