Mr Uba’s campaign organisation wondered how APGA could have won the election after many of its stalwarts had defected to the APC.
But unlike Mr Obiano, who benefitted from ex-Governor Peter Obi’s prudence, Mr Soludo will have an ebbing pocket and the mutating IPOB threat to contend with.
Mr Agbadimalo was kidnapped on September 18 while leaving a campaign ground at Ezinifitte Nnewi South local government area.
A chieftain of the APC, Anene Chikezie, has praised President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime for providing a level playing field for Saturday’s poll in Anambra.
Yiaga Africa has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to undertake a thorough audit of its Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS).
“We are deploying more than a thousand to the polling booths. This makes an average of three, four. They are going to be complemented by other security agencies.”
Mr Soludo leads by 52,624 votes, far below the 148,407 registered voters in Ihiala LGA. But with 10 per cent turnout seen so far, observers have concluded APGA’s imminent victory.
“I was made to sign the election papers under duress,” Mr Otu narrated during collation of results at Akwa on Sunday.
The frontline civic group will partner Peoples Gazette and other media outlets to cover the gubernatorial exercise in the key southeastern state.
Mr Umahi says the political solutions could “be achieved faster if all the illegal “sit-at-home’’ orders and violence by the various state agitators are stopped.”
