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INEC To Make Final Decision On Anambra Guber Election Today

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The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee will as we speak maintain an emergency safety assembly in Abuja to take a ultimate resolution on the conduct of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State.

There are fears that the actions of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra (IPOB) within the state might hinder the conduct of the election. Political events and candidates have reportedly suspended their campaigns owing to the worsening safety state of affairs within the state.

Director, Voter Training and Publicity, INEC, Victor Ayodele Aluko, instructed reporters yesterday that the emergency Inter-Company Consultative Committee on Election Safety assembly would amongst others deliberate on the best way ahead.

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Requested if the INEC was contemplating suspending the election because of the insecurity within the state, he stated the reply would come after as we speak’s assembly.

INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had final Wednesday expressed fears over the worsening safety challenges within the state.

Nevertheless, politicians and residents of Anambra yesterday expressed hope that the election would maintain as deliberate regardless of the safety challenges within the state.

The director of media within the Andy Uba marketing campaign council, Afam Ogene stated the election would maintain and the APC was ready for it.

A director within the marketing campaign group of the APGA governorship candidate, Charles Soludo, Don Adinuba, stated the insecurity wouldn’t have an effect on the election.

Adinuba, who can also be the Commissioner for Data within the state, stated the federal government was placing measures in place to make sure peaceable conduct of the election.

Equally, the publicity secretary of the PDP within the state, Nnamdi Nwangwu, stated the celebration was hopeful that the election would maintain and was making ready for it.

A resident of Awka, Philip Obasi, stated that although there have been considerations, the election would go as scheduled.

However Miss. Ngozi Uche, one other resident, doubted that the election would maintain as non-state actors “proceed to determine when folks come out and go in.”

The vp of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Ogene-Okeke, urged the federal and state governments to provide the residents hope of security.

“Safety is the obligation of the federal and state governments. They need to do the needful by offering safety to the folks. No one is completely satisfied that individuals are being killed on daily basis unchecked. Killing is killing both in Anambra or Zamfara,” he stated.

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He referred to as on President Muhammadu Buhari to deal with the safety challenges within the nation

The Commissioner of Police, Tony Olofu, charged his personnel to be agency and resolute in making the battle to the doorstep of the attackers.