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  • ‘Poll’s success portends brighter future for Anambra’

    ‘Poll’s success portends brighter future for Anambra’

    The All Progressives Grand Alliance’s (APGA’s) governorship candidate, Chief Willie Obiano, yesterday said the success of the governorship election was a pointer to greater and brighter future for Anambra State.

    Obiano, who was addressing reporters in his hometown, Aguleri, said the outcome of the poll had confirmed that the indigenes could forge a common front and take their destiny in their hands.

    He noted that the electorate had made a strong statement through the decision to vote for a candidate of their choice.

    The APGA standard-bearer said the election was free and fair.

    He thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for providing a conducive environment and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for giving a level-playing field to all parties.

    Obiano hailed the security agencies for maintaining law and order.

    He also thanked the people for their orderliness during the poll and for voting for him, adding that he was grateful to APGA for giving him its ticket.

    Chief Obiano urged the residents involved in the supplementary elections to participate and ensure a peaceful conclusion of the election.

     

     

  • Nwoye, Obiano express mixed reactions over arrival of election materials

    MR. Anthony Nwoye, the PDP candidate in the Anambra governorship election, decried the late arrival of election materials to some areas considered to be his stronghold.

    However, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Chief Willie Obiano, was all praise for INEC for a job well done.

    The APGA and PDP candidates are from Aguleri and Nsugbe communities respectively in Anambra East Local Council Area of the state,according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    Both communities are about 20 minutes drive away from each other.

    Election materials arrived Nwoye’s polling unit located at Ilo-Abito square, Nsugbe Ward one, at about 9.40 am while it arrived at Obiano’s polling unit at Eri Primary School Ward one at about 10 02 am.

    However, Nwoye in an interview, alleged that the delay was a ploy by his opponents to disenfranchise voters in his area.

    “My finding is that it is a desperate move by my opponents to win the election.

    “I gathered that materials arrived other polling booths as early as 6.30 a.m. but as you can see, no material has arrived my polling booth for inexplicable reasons.

    “I have called the federal commissioner in charge of the South East to make my complaints known to him and he expressed shock.

    “For materials that moved since last night to local government areas not to have reached polling booths by this time, is an attempt to provoke the youths and disenfranchise them,” he said.

    The PDP candidate however, expressed confidence that he would be elected governor at the end of the poll.

    In his remarks, Obiano, after his accreditation at about 10.30 a.m., simply said: “So far, INEC is doing well.”

    Meanwhile, accreditation in most of the polling units visited in the area have been peaceful and orderly while also witnessing a large turn-out of voters in the various units visited.

  • Women support APGA’s candidate

    The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Willie Obiano, has been described as the best candidate to take over the reins of power from Governor Peter Obi.

    The chairperson of a group called the “Women Door To Door Initiative for Willie Obiano Governorship Campaigns”, Mrs. Ebele Ejikeme, said this yesterday in Onitsha.

    She said Obiano was the most qualified among the candidates.

    Mrs. Ejikeme said besides Obi’s performance, he had brought discipline and decorum into governance, adding that there was need for somebody, who had a good record of academics and experience, to take over from him.

    According to the lawyer, “Obiano is the only person among the lot, who can step into the big shoes. This is why the “Women Door To Door Initiative for Willie Obiano Governorship Campaigns” has taken it upon itself to sensitise Anambra women.”

    She said the task of the group was to move from house to house in 177 communities in 21 local governments to promote the candidature of Obiano.

     

    Mrs. Ejikeme said the governor and the leadership of APGA insisted on the door to door initiative because it was only women that could be acceptable in homes to talk to their fellow women.

    “Besides educating women in the nooks and crannies of the state, they will also debunk the rumours and allegations spread by the opposition parties against Obiano,” she said.