Anambra state Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Prince Nicolas Ukachukwu has accused Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of using the local vigilant, popularly known as ‘Udo Ga Achi to intimidate voters and the in the just concluded bye election.
Prince Ukachukwu in a press briefing held in his Campaign office at Awka alledged that state government used the non state actors to scare voters and held his party’s agent hostage. He described the senatorial result as orchestrated plan to manipulate the process.
The Governorship candidate equally urged his party faithful to remain calm
“We are all aware of how the state vigilante group put our party senatorial candidate under house arrest, he said.
“His house was surrounded, just to ensure that he did not exercise his franchise. You are also witnesses to how a sitting Deputy Governor of Anambra State left his location within the Central senatorial district to supervise election in another senatorial district.
“He came to my home town, Osumenyi to distract us and manipulate the election. While he was in Osumenyi to distract me as a governorship candidate, the state vigilante, Udogachi were busy holding the senatorial candidate hostage in his house.
“You were also aware of the murder of APC ward 2 chairman at Nri town, the home town of my deputy, Senator Uche Ekwunife. You can see that it was an organized set up.
“Most of the results they declared were not correct. The election was mared with irregularities, yet nobody was arrested. They used state vigilante: Udogachi and Agunechemba to achieve their aims.
“The local vigilante were arresting and detaining people especially APC Agents, supporters and canversers. They were in different polling units with the Local government mayor, yet no arrest was made .
“In my community, they came, beating and arresting my people and as a leader of my party, I have to protect them .
“Notwithstanding, the Deputy Governor came to my place, arrested our polling units agents, canvassers and supporters and confiscated their phones, voters card and other valuables. It was when I arrived that l stopped them. That was when he released their seized items.
“We are not going to fold our arms and allow things go wrong. We are going to do otherwise if security agencies did not do the needful by disarming the vigilante groups they are using. They are already jittery because they know that they will lose the November 8 guber election.
“We are calling on Inspector General of Police and other security agencies to take good account of what happened in Anambra Bye election.
“APC will win this November 8 election when things are put in place as it suppose to be. We are not looking for rigging, we are not looking for violence, we are law abiding and with proper vote cast, we will win the election.
“I’m urging the members and supporters to always obey the government. We have a listening president and our federal security apparatus will do the needful at the right time.
Angel Network News (ANN) recalls that
the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Chief. Emmanuel Nwachukwu was declared the winner of the Anambra South senatorial seat bye election.
Nwachukwu polled 90,408 votes to defeat his closest rival, Azuka Okwuosa, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 19,847 votes.
