A visit to many polling units in Nnewi South, Nnewi North , Ihiala and Ekwusigo Local Governments 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 peaceful, smooth.
At Osumenyi, the hometown of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, similar developments were reported.
In Ukpor, the hometown of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the bye election, Dr Emma Nwachukwu, the stakes were reportedly to 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.
