Andy Uba
Andy Uba group demands investigation into alleged $4m bribe to INEC officials
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation (SAUGCO) has called on security agencies to expose the alleged giver of $4 million bribe to officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to compromise the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election.
A newspaper (not The Oracle Today) had last Saturday published a report alleging that some officials of INEC had been bribed to compromise the election.
A statement by the director of media and publicity of SAUGCO, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, wondered how the security agencies had not started on the allegation.
“We wonder how forty-eight hours after a programmed bid to compromise the outcome of the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra state was blown open, those fingered in the deal are, sadly, still walking the streets, free”, the statement read.
While expressing disappointment at the development, the campaign organization called on the nation’s security agencies to swiftly unravel those behind the sordid attempt to subvert the will of Anambra people.
“Since the scandal blew open, neither Governor Willy Obiano nor his Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba, have mustered the nerves to utter a single word in response, despite clear and unassailable indications that, indeed, the governor at the centre of the bribery saga is the Anambra State helmsman.
“Instead of coming clean on the allegations, as it affects it, the Obiano administration have rather chosen to divert attention, by engaging third parties and social media miscreants under its payroll to engage in a wild goose chase over who the alleged governor and his spouse are.
“Besides the $4 million bribe money, the newspaper report also made mention of ‘the wife of the politician, who is described as an influential and powerful first lady in the Southeast(who) is reported to have been meeting secretly with many electoral officers, EOs, who are key to the forthcoming election.
“In the face of the puerile attempts to divert attention from Mrs Ebele Obiano as the First Lady in issue, we hasten to raise the following posers: Which First Lady in the Southeast is reputed to freely dish out slaps to aides and government functionaries? Which First Lady did her husband openly address as ‘Her Excellency, the Governor’ in a viral video? Which First Lady is known to vet government appointments before release? And Which First Lady chastised her husband’s deputy, to the point of compelling him to defect to another political party, simply because she took umbrage at him paying a private visit to a prominent son of the state?”
