The Labour Party candidate in Saturday’s Anambra State governorship election, George Moghalu, has disclosed the reason why he failed in his polling unit.
NewsBits recalls that Governor Chukwuma Soludo won a second term in office after he defeated all his opponents by a very wide margin. Speaking in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television, Moghalu blamed his loss in his polling unit on vote-buying by some of the contenders.
He said he could not afford to match the amount of money other candidates were offering voters, and as a result, he refused to engage in vote-buying. He said that many voters in his polling unit succumbed to the temptation of money due to their financial struggles.
“Yes, because I couldn’t afford how much that was being paid. I couldn’t pay, and I refused to pay; I refused to get involved. So, they have too much money to buy votes, and what do you expect my people to do? They fell because a lot of them are poor,” he said.
Moghalu specifically accused the ruling party in Anambra, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), of being the main culprit behind the alleged vote-buying activities. He claimed that several party agents, some of whom had been arrested for vote-buying, were seen wearing APGA party tags.
According to Moghalu, “Some of them are on record as having been seen purchasing votes. There’s even a commissioner who was also caught on camera buying votes in my particular constituency.”
