Dr. Queen Elizabeth Agwu, the resident electoral commissioner for Anambra State, has issued a warning to the state’s ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the Labour Party (LP), the People Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressive Congress (APC), and other political parties that will be participating in the state’s House of Assembly elections on Saturday, March 18, 2023, not to enter any polling place with Point of Service (PoS) machines for vote buying.
She threatens that, regardless of how highly regarded the political party may be, any party agent or follower discovered with such an act will be dealt with in accordance with the Electorate Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Dr. Agwu, gave the warning at the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Headquarters Awka, on Friday, while updating Journalists, on the Commission’s readiness for the election and the ongoing distribution of sensitive material meant for the House of Assembly election across the 21 local government areas of the State.
Kukuruku News gathered that the election is scheduled to be held in all 5,720 polling units and 326 wards in the state.
The distribution of the sensitive materials on Wednesday, according to the REC, was done at the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Awka, Anambra State capital.
She said the process, supervised by her, was witnessed by representatives of different political parties, security agents, the media and other stakeholders.
She added that INEC is ready to conduct free, fair and acceptable elections in the state.
“It is a tradition that we normally move our materials, particularly, the sensitive materials to the local governments, from the local governments to the RAC centres [and] to the polling units,” she said.
“We have 21 local governments and we have watched and distributed our materials down, most especially the ballot papers that are meant for the State Assembly elections and this has been properly and systematically outlined so that there won’t be a mix-up.”
