There has been an accusation against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for rigging the just-concluded election.
The youth are angry that INEC is trying to give them a president that is not their choice.
This has resulted in protests asking INEC to release the original result.
While that is on, the whole matter is taking a different turn in Anambra State.
Both Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Chris Azubogu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have accused the sitting senator, Ifeanyi Ubah, of trying to assassinate them.
According to the pair, under Senator Ubah’s orders, thugs attacked them on Sunday night and wrecked seven of their SUVs.
Chris Uba alleged that Senator Ubah ordered his security operatives to shoot at him and Azubogu for coming to the Senatorial election collation centre of the INEC to stop him from rigging Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
Using The BVAS
Chris Uba said: “I came to the collation center and had visited some polling units where they were voting without accreditation with BVAS and I said, no we must follow the Electoral Act.
“Ifeanyi Ubah had concluded arrangements to manipulate the election by not using the BVAS and at the Collation center Nnewi, I saw Ifeanyi Ubah and we traded banters but shortly after that, I was in my SUV when he came and was hitting his hand at my vehicle asking me to come down.
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“When I was about stepping down from my vehicle, my security men advised me not to risk my life considering the determination of Ifeanyi to get rid of me, but I insisted and eventually came out of my vehicle.
“He pushed me and asked me why I had come to Nnewi and I told him that Nnewi is the Anambra South Senatorial Collation centre and he started shouting to his security operatives to shoot me and Chris Azubogu.
“They started shooting sporadically and beating up people and look at my four vehicles; they shot and busted the tyres and came to attack me and Azubogu.
“We had to run for our lives and on the way, my SUV fell into a ditch”.
Furthermore, he called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to disqualify Senator Ubah on the basis of thuggery and attempted assassination.
Ifeanyi Ubah’s Side Of The Story
For Senator Ubah the story is different.
He claims that “the duo of Chris Uba and Chris Azubogu tried hijack the collation process last night and relocate it to Awka in a clear bid to mutilate the ward results in their favour and declare a false electoral outcome”.
In a statement by his spokesman, Kameh Ogbonna, he said that the conceited attempt boomeranged on their faces last night, as they scampered to safety after they were roundly accosted by an angry mob of youths that trooped out to defend their votes.
“It took the intervention of the youths who quickly mobilised others and flooded the collation centre in their numbers to quell the attempt and restore normalcy to the tensed situation.”
However, the Media Assistant to Azubogu, Chris Macon, dismissed Ubah’s claims, saying that Senator Ubah actually attacked his boss and Chris Uba.
