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Anambra Government has cancelled elections into the Board of the State Football Association slated for Monday.
In a statement on Saturday, Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C. Don Adinuba, said the cancellation was based on the needs to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Adinuba described the decision to schedule an election at a time the state was battling with escalating infection as “reckless and in flagrant violation of the directive by the Anambra State Government prohibiting elections in the state until further notice.”
He said the exercise could wait because “elections into the Board of the Anambra State Football Association and Anambra State Local Football Councils are by no means an emergency. In fact, there is absolutely nothing urgent about them.”
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He further stated Okpuno, Awka South Local Government Area, which was slated to host the election had been the “epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the state, even though the LGA is not the most populous in the state and does not have the highest level of human activity in the state.”
The Commissioner informed security agencies have been directed to stop the purported election, emphasising the “directives on COVID-19 must be obeyed to the letter by each individual and group throughout our state. There are no sacred cows.”
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