Mr. Alex Anene, the Election Returning Officer for Anambra Senatorial District has alleged that he was offered a bribe of N10m, a duplex and scholarships abroad for his teenage children to announce a doctored election result.
Instead of accepting the offer, Anene abandoned his election station and refused declaring the result.
Addressing newsmen in Awka, Anene said “as a Christian, I couldn’t do something against my conscience.”
As a result of the abandonment, confusion trailed the outcome of the election culminating into a declaration by the INEC that the election in the senatorial district was inconclusive.
In the meantime, elections have been cancelled in some areas in the district by the INEC.
Anene, however could not give the details of the candidate he was pressurized to declare as the winner.
Furthermore, Professor Dora Akunyili has denied any involvement in the bribery scandal as alleged by the Election Returning Officer for Anambra Senatorial District election, Mr. Alex Anene.
Describing the allegation as unfounded while addressing newsmen in Awka, Professor Akunyili said that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has never been known for any scandal of bribery.
In addition, she further said that she do not have thugs and could not have done any of the allegations coming from Mr. Anene.
She called on the electorates to still come out en masse to vote her in the re-run election.
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