Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned those who have the intention to rig and also foment trouble during the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election to steer clear.
The President General of Ohanaeze, Nnia Nwodo, who insisted the election must be free and fair, handed down this warning on Wednesday in Enugu.
According to him, Ohanaeze was satisfied “with the resolve of the people of Anambra State and all the political parties in the state to turn out for the elections.”
He said that those who do not want election to hold in Anambra State and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who are calling for a boycott of the election do not wish the people and state well.
“It is not for the interest of Anambra people for you to tell them not to go and vote because if they do not vote there will be anarchy because the constitution does not conceive any other thing to do than a state of emergency,” he pointed out.
He also noted that if the voters were persuaded not to go out to cast their votes, it would be a disservice to Anambra State and Ndigbo at large, adding that “Ohanaeze Ndigbo is insistent that the votes of Ndi-Anambra must be respected in Saturday’s elections.”
He said that “it was criminal for anyone to say don’t come out to vote, if you come out to vote you will die; that is incitement, attempt to kill, attempt to murder and when the security operatives come against them they will say its Operation Python Dance,” even as he advised the young ones who are encouraged to do unlawful things to retrieve their steps.
“Any attempt to rig, manipulate, falsify or impose results on Ndi-Anambra in this election will be seriously resisted.”
Nwodo disclosed that Ohanaeze had applied to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be given an observer status for the election, saying that they had already recruited lecturers from universities and polytechnics to help them in the exercise.
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