Sen. Athan Nneji Achonu, candidate of the Labour Party in today’s governorship election, has stated that democracy is under attack in the country,
However, Agu Out Aka (One-Arm General), as he is fondly called, declared that the masses were resisting the attack.
Achonu lamented the several infractions during the conduct of the election, including the hijack of electoral materials, disenfranchisement, and the refusal of the staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to upload results at the polling units.
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He said: “In so many places, it is either the INEC staff refused to sign the result or refuse to upload. You saw what happened here. It took the intervention of security operatives, who came here before they started uploading the results. The machine they said could not upload suddenly started uploading. Maybe, if I wasn’t from this area, it wouldn’t have been possible. There are even places in Aboh Mbaise where they did not have result sheets.”
The LP flagbearer claimed victory, saying: “We are winning massively on the ground. They have done everything humanly possible to thwart that but we will not allow that; Imolites will not allow that. I hope INEC is hearing me clearly now. They should declare our results the way they are. They can’t change our results.
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“The All Progressives Congress, APC government should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost the election and they are trying to change the result.
“In Orlu, they moved the entire electoral materials to the house of a traditional ruler. Orsu was worse; it’s madness. They were doing cluster voting. They blocked people from coming out to vote and then brought some people with cards they hired from somewhere to vote, claiming they were the people who ran away from home.
“Democracy is under attack but we are resisting it. That is why you see all these people here so that we can have proper democracy and good governance. Of course, INEC must cancel everywhere this madness occurred and order a rerun. “ Achonu said.
Meanwhile, operatives of the Nigerian Civil Defence and Security Corps, NSCDC, have lamented the destruction of their place, following an attack allegedly led by one Inspector of Police, called ‘Kill and Bury’. They alleged that Chinasa Nwaneri, Governor Hope Uzodinma’s Adviser on Special Duties, who had been reported arrested and flown to Abuja came in an amoured car and sent Kill and Bury to wreak havoc on the NSCDC office, and even took away the magazine of the AK47 rifle of one of the operatives.
They also accused one Chisom, the President General of Nkwere of bringing the attackers.
However, Polycarp Egoye, who identified himself as the Commander of NSCDC in Nkwere, lamented that the problem that Nigeria has is recruiting illiterate people into the system, and that explains their irrational behaviour.
