Former Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation Babachir Lawal has claimed that the just lately concluded Anambra State governorship election was rigged.
Talking in an interview on Politics At the moment, a programme on Channels Tv monitored by DAILY POST on Monday, Lawal stated, “constructions are used to rig elections; constructions are used to defend votes on the polling models.”
His feedback comply with the conclusion of the election, during which the incumbent governor, Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was declared the winner by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee.
When requested whether or not he had been concerned in rigging elections for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the course of the get together’s victories within the 2015 and 2023 basic elections, the previous SGF responded: “Some folks most likely rigged, however the degree at which I used to be concerned within the presidential election, our candidate is such that might tolerate rigging.
“Buhari has at all times informed me in each election that ‘look, SGF, let’s respect Nigerian voters. Allow us to respect their Everlasting Voters Playing cards, PVCs’.”
