Cnpp Endorses Anambra Council Election …As PPA Rejects Agents Result

The Conference of Nige
rian Political Parties – CNPP Anambra State Chapter,  has endorsed the just concluded Local Government election in twenty Local Government Councils as transparent, free and fair.
Briefing journalists in Awka after its executive meeting, the body extolled Governor Obi for his giant strides in conducting the election after sixteen years.
Presenting the stand of the Association, the State Chairperson, Mrs. Oby Okafor expressed satisfaction that ANSIEC provided a level playing ground and conducted free, fair and credible election which other political parties secured victory in various parts of the State, unlike in others States where ruling parties won all the posts.
The Association enjoined candidates of other political parties to use their positions in the Council to promote healthy debate and inputs that would help entrench good governance, while urging the Council Chairman to be fair and just to achieve the goals of distributing democracy dividends to the people.
It called on aggrieved political parties and individuals who nurse reservation on the exercise to tow the line of civility and channel their grievances to appropriate quarters to maintain peace and stability.
The Body called on ANSIEC to make sure that the rescheduled Nnewi North Council election that was declared inconclusive would be transparent, free and fair.
Meanwhile, The leader of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) in Anambra State, Mr Godwin Ezeemo, has said that the party will challenge the results of Saturday’s local government polls in Aguata.
Ezeemo said in Awka on Monday that the results announced by the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) on Sunday was unacceptable.
He said the 55,810 votes announced in favour of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the local government was unfounded, adding that there was no election in the area.
Ezeemo said that ANSIEC officials came to the area at noon as against the 8 a.m. scheduled for the election.
The leader said he was told by the party members that when the officials eventually turned up at Umuchu, his ward, with election materials, the result sheet was missing in all wards.
“It is a clear indication that some group of politicians have made away with the vital documents to please themselves. If the government is sincere, there is no reason for the result sheets to be missing. “I am worried that the people have been fooled and deceived that the election was going to be free,’’ he said.
Ezeemo, the party’s candidate in the Nov 16, 2013 gubernatorial election, said: “This is a deceit and a crime against humanity that should be rejected in its totality.’’
A councillorship candidate in Ekwuluobia, Mr Emmanuel Eze, also said that the election results in Aguata were laughable, saying that no single election took place in the local government.

Godwin Osondu, Awka