The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Anambra State Senator Chris Ngige on Sunday threatened that his party would challenge the result of he election at the election tribunal.
Ngige, who addressed newsmen at Old English Hotel in Awka, the state capital accompanied by the Director General of his campaign organization, Chief George Muoghalu, also said he and his party would boycott Sunday's repeat elections in the 65 polling units in Obosi ward 1, Idemili-South local government area, where elections could not hold on Saturday due to late arrival of electoral materials.
The APC candidate alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conspired with the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APC) in the state to desenfranchise his supporters by distributing electoral materials late to areas considered his stronghold. He also alleged that electoral materials were brought to such areas between 5-30pm and 6pm without the result sheets, and ,that by that period all the voters had left the voting centres to their
various homes.
Ngige mentioned some of the areas affected by the late distribution of electoral materials during the gubernatorial election some of which he claimed were his stronghold to include, Onitsha-North, Ogbaru, Nnewi-South and Anaocha, alleging further that his agents were even forced out of some of the polling centres and some of them manhandled.
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