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Anambra governorship poll over-policed, vote buying high: LP candidate Moghalu

Mr Moghalu lamented the quantum of vote buying during the election.

• November 9, 2025
Dr George Moghalu(Credit: Peoples Gazette)

The Labour Party governorship candidate in the Anambra poll, Dr George Moghalu, has described the election as over-policed and marred by vote buying.

Addressing journalists at his residence in company of with the National Coordinator of the Obedient Movement, Dr Yunisa Tanko, Mr Moghalu lamented the quantum of vote buying during the  election.

According to him, the election was highly monitored.

He added that the poll was mobilised in such a way that electorates became confused and declined to vote until they were given money.

“I had said that I will not speak much on the issue until after the conclusion of the process. I am somebody that does not speak on assumption. I speak with facts, I don’t speak because I have opportunity to speak.

“I will speak after I have received the reports from those I deployed to 320 wards in Anambra State. But I have not seen vote buying in this quantum”, he said.

On deployment of security, he stressed that more than five very important deputy Inspector-General of Police were deployed in Anambra State. 

He urged the INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, to redeem the image of the commission in the election and should make a statement regarding the poll. 

(NAN)

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