By Kenny Obiukwu, reporting from Ukpor
As the Anambra South senatorial bye-election gets underway, the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was found to neck deep in vote buying.
It was alleged that a visit to many polling units in Nnewi South, Nnewi North , Ihiala and Ekwusigo LGAs revealed that APGA has been offering and inducing voters and potential voters from between ten thousand Naira and twenty-five thousand Naira per vote.
Outside the malaise of vote buying and inducement, the process was said to be peaceful and smooth.
At Osumenyi, the home town of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, similar development was reported.
Also in Ukpor, the home town of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the bye election, Dr Emma Nwachukwu, it was alleged that the stakes were reportedly to be even higher than what was obtained in other communities/Wards.
“They came here and gave everybody money ranging from N10, 000 to 25000. There was hunger in the land, some of us rejected their overtures but others didn’t.
“This is a travesty of democracy, it is indeed a sad commentary that a self acclaimed professor would supervise this kind of desperation driven electoral fraud.
Just hope that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would take judicial notice of the ugly development in Nnewi South, Nnewi North, Ekwusigo and Ihiala LGAs particularly”, Madam Comfort Okoye said.
