The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government of plotting to hijack the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship election, by threatening to, and possibly declaring a state of emergency in the State, amid the ongoing security crisis in the State, .
In a statement by its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, it described the threat as a plot to impose an All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor on Anambra State, come November 6, 2021.
He said: “We are astounded that the APC-led Federal Government is writing the scripts for the hijack of the electoral process in Anambra Governorship elections.
“The threats to announce a state of emergency in Anambra, and replace Governor Willie Obiano with Sole Administrator from the North, is the gimmicks of Governor Hope Uzodinma-led National Electoral Committee on Anambra Guber elections to install an APC Governor by November 6, 2021, Governorship election in Anambra.
“Ndigbo earlier foresaw these moves to use the instrumentality of the Federal Government to install an APC Governor in Anambra.
“Our suspicion has been reinforced with the recent Presidential threats to declare a state of emergency in Anambra.
“It is a reaffirmation that the insecurity challenges in the South-East were sponsored and man-made.
“Even the operation Golden Dawn of the Army was a deliberate action; the threats from the Presidency are all politics, so Anambra people should resist this devilish plot of importing a sole administrator from the North to impose an APC Governor in Anambra.
“This is a wake-up call and a bitter lesson for the South-East Governors to rise and voice out the truth to President Muhammadu Buhari on his deficiencies and flaws in governance. A decorated slave fetching firewood for the roasting of another slave should be aware that his own life is not safe.
“If Governor Willie Obiano is removed under the guise of a state of emergency, and replaced with a Northern Sole Administrator, it will definitely spread to other States.”
He added that it was strange that while the Federal Government is helping APC Governors in Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Borno and Yobe States to fight insurgents and terrorists, it is threatening a state of emergency in Anambra State.
He alleged that “there is pressure on Governor Obiano to either decamp to APC, or be replaced by an APC Northern Sole Administrator, under the guise of state of emergency, but Ndigbo will resist this onslaught against Anambra people”.
