{"id":77662,"date":"2022-12-09T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/anambra-election-how-we-rigged-polls-for-soludo-man-alleges"},"modified":"2022-12-09T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:38:06","slug":"anambra-election-how-we-rigged-polls-for-soludo-man-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/anambra-election-how-we-rigged-polls-for-soludo-man-alleges","title":{"rendered":"Anambra election: How we rigged polls for Soludo \u2013 Man alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A suspect, one Anthony Onuoha, who was arrested by the Ebonyi State police command over alleged car theft, on Thursday, confessed to having worked with over 30 election riggers during last year\u2019s Anambra election in favour of Prof. Charles Soludo.<\/p>\n

Onuoha, who was paraded alongside other suspects, alleged that they were hired by one Uche General, to rig the governorship election for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.<\/p>\n

The suspect alleged that they were given a car and fifty thousand naira after the election.<\/p>\n

According to him: \u201cLast year November, a car was given to me after governor Soludo\u2019s election, because I was involved as one of the 30 persons that were kept in one place to work for APGA. We were promised to be given a car and fifty thousand naira after the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat attracted me to work for APGA was the car and not the fifty thousand naira. I went to Anambra State that November; I was picked by one Mr. Uche General, I don\u2019t know his surname. Uche General was the one in charge of the section.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role I played there was that we were kept at Awka North to thumbprint ballot papers on that day of the election. We thumb-printed for APGA governorship candidate, Charles Soludo, and we agreed that at the end of the day, we will be given a car and fifty thousand naira, which they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are nine persons that were given a car out of over thirty persons that were hired for the job. This car was given to me by them and the fifty thousand naira to fuel it,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n

However, in a swift reaction, the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, who spoke to DAILY POST through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Aburime, said the suspect, Onuoha, should be made to face the wrath of the law.<\/p>\n

Soludo denied having any deal with the suspect during the last Anambra State election.<\/p>\n

According to him: \u201cThe police should take full wrath of the law against the suspect. We don\u2019t know him, he is just telling lies to get off the hook. He is a common criminal and nobody knows him. Moreover, it was BVAS that was used during that last year election in Anambra State. So, where did they do the thumbprinting?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know him. We don\u2019t know who he is. He must be a criminal and that is why he is in the police net. APGA won an election that was declared the most free and fair election in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no such thumbprinting in that Anambra election. It was BVAS that INEC deployed in that election. We don\u2019t know that guy, the governor of Anambra State does not know him. And APGA as a political party does not know him. The guy is on his own and he should face and carry his cross,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. A suspect, one Anthony Onuoha, who was arrested by the Ebonyi State police command over alleged car theft, on Thursday, confessed to having worked with over 30 election riggers during last year\u2019s Anambra election in favour of Prof. Charles Soludo. 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