Anambra Election: APC dismisses speculations to rig election

Bolaji Abdullahi

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked reports that it was planning to rig the upcoming November 18, Anambra gubernatorial election.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Bolaji Abdullahi, who said this on Thursday at a media conference held at the APC national Secretariat in Abuja, stated that although the party will leave no stone unturned in winning the election, it is not in its bid to alter the election.

He claimed that the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano, whom he described as jittery, was the brain behind the allegations that the party wanted to rig the election.

“We believe strongly that the speculation of APC deploying soldiers to rig Anambra election is just a mere rumour because there is no evidence to that (effect) and if anybody tells you that the party is planning to deploy the Civil Defence, police, soldiers or whatever to do anything in Anambra, tell the person to provide the evidence”, said Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s spokesman.

Read also: Aisha Buhari scheduled to visit Gombe

“We are planning to win the election fair and square and if you are following the campaigns going on, you will know the impact that our candidate is making.

“The incumbent will naturally be jittery and when a candidate is jittery the first thing he will do is to turn around and accuse the ruling party of planning to rig or whatever.

“We are not going to rig the election. We have won elections since we came to power as a national party and as a ruling party. We have equally lost elections. We lost the election in Osun and if we have soldiers and police and whatever to mobilize why did we not do it. We have lost a couple of House of Representatives elections and a couple of Senate elections.

“So, the speculation that we are planning to rig the election does not hold water. Unless they have credible evidence that this is what we are planning to do, but to make this kind of allegation is not what we should dwell on too much”, he stated.

Read also: Chibok Girls: BBOG to resume protest at Presidential Villa

He noted that all APC Stakeholders are behind Dr Tony Nwoye, saying, “Whenever we go into primaries as in the case of Anambra where we had 12 aspirants, there will be one level of acrimony or the other no matter the effort you make. But what we did was to get everybody to rally round the candidate.

“All of us are working together and we have the National Campaign Chairman in the person of Bauchi state governor. Up till yesterday, we were still meeting to strategize and of course you know that the President will be part of the grand finale of the campaign.

“So, all of us are working to ensure victory because Anambra is very important to the party and we understand the significance of the Anambra election. So, we are pulling everything together and everybody is working together to ensure success in Anambra”, he added.