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Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State have alleged that some electoral materials meant for the House of Assembly election were stolen in two state constituencies.
Consequently, the party has petitioned the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra State, Prof. Nkwachukwu Orji over the development.
Disclosing this to newsmen, Senator Ngige said the two constituencies were Ihiala I and Awka South I, stressing that electoral materials kept in the custody of the local government chairmen were stolen.
He said: “So far, there are reported cases of pilfering of INEC materials at Ihiala I and Awka South I, where our party agents said materials kept in custody of the local government chairmen were no longer complete in the morning of the election at the RAC.
“We have petitioned INEC through the REC, bringing his attention to that situation otherwise the elections in those two places would have been compromised ab initio. So we are on standby; we are waiting for the votes to be counted in many places and for election results to come in.”
On the conduct of the election in the state Ngige said: “Anambra is not doing governorship; we are doing legislative House and it has somehow affected the turnout of voters.
“But be that as it may, it is a very important election as it affords Anambra people the opportunity to form one arm of the government, state Assembly which is for making state laws and which is the ambit of governance that is nearer to the people.”
The minister also said that card reader was not much of problem this time, urging INEC to look into it very seriously as majority it (card readers) were still rejecting peoples finger prints.
