{"id":417323,"date":"2011-05-04T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/apga-alleges-plot-to-rig-imo-guber-supplementary-poll\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:06:22","slug":"apga-alleges-plot-to-rig-imo-guber-supplementary-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/apga-alleges-plot-to-rig-imo-guber-supplementary-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"APGA alleges plot to rig Imo guber supplementary poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0By PETER OKUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ABAKALIKI-\u00a0 Barely two\u00a0days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo<br \/>State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the<br \/>supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour of the incumbent Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Party also alleged that Governor Ikedi Ohakim had planned to empty the state treasury on the four local governments councils where the<br \/>re-run election is to take place, arguing that huge amount of money had been released to the affected local council areas to induce electorate against their wish.<\/p>\n<p>In a Press statement issued in Abakaliki and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Benard Akoma, APGA further alleged that the<br \/>re-run governorship election in Imo State for May 6, would afford the ruling PDP government in the state the opportunity to perfect plans to rig the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to Akoma \u201cAPGA therefore calls on President Goodluck Jonathan to mandate members of the PDP to respect the new face of democracy in Nigeria by submitting to free, fair and credible ngovernorship election in Imo state come May 6, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Anything to the contrary is capable of dealing a devastating blow to the acclaimed good record of the Jonathan\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPGA regretted that the devious lots by Imo state government to thwart the yearnings and aspirations of the people, could negatively<br \/>impact on Jonathan\u2019s administration\u2019s record of being the first to conduct widely accepted election in Nigeria since the country embraced<br \/>democracy in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing \u201cThere is a well articulated arrangement to use Security Agents and embark on massive arrest of APGA agents on the election day<br \/>with the flimsiest excuse that they are creating confusion capable of disrupting the elections at the polling booths. The arrangement is to<br \/>regard any genuine complaint by APGA agents at the polling booths as reason to pick the agent and lock him up till the election is over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/apga-alleges-pdp-plot-to-rig-imo-guber-supplementary-poll\/\" title=\"APGA alleges plot to rig Imo guber supplementary poll\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APGA alleges plot to rig Imo guber supplementary poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u00a0By PETER OKUTU ABAKALIKI-\u00a0 Barely two\u00a0days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour of the incumbent Governor. The Party also alleged that Governor Ikedi Ohakim had planned to empty the state treasury on the four local governments councils where the re-run election is to take place, arguing that huge amount of money had been released to the affected local council areas to induce electorate against their wish. In a Press statement issued in Abakaliki and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APGA alleges plot to rig Imo guber supplementary poll - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/apga-alleges-plot-to-rig-imo-guber-supplementary-poll\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"APGA alleges plot to rig Imo guber supplementary poll - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0By PETER OKUTU ABAKALIKI-\u00a0 Barely two\u00a0days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour of the incumbent Governor. 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