The governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the just concluded Anambra State poll, Chief George Moghalu, has said the exercise was not free and fair.

Moghalu, who stated this at post election press conference held at Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area (LGA), claimed that the election was marred by vote buying, failure of BVAs, missing results sheets, violence and missing results.

He, however, said hi party and campaign organization would analyse the key issues discovered in the election critically and tell the world what steps to be taken to address them.

“The election is not free and fair. There are cases of vote buying. In many cases, result sheets were not there, but elections were going on. On the social media, you see people carrying money and giving money. There were also cases of voter intimidation. 

“In Idemili North, one of my major supporters was beaten; but that shouldn’t happen. They came to pick him up from his house but he resisted, so, they beat him black and blue. INEC has their own shortcomings and failures.

“Security agencies, on their own, assured us of protection. That was why they sent 45,000 policemen, over 20 CPs, AIGs, DIGs and so on; but at the end of the day, they were not able to stop vote buying. Vote buying was everywhere; it was visible. The truth is that the entire process was faulty. Vote buying was at an alarming rate in the November 8 governorship election.

“Again, in many areas, LP logo was in the ballot paper, but the name is not there. There are people who may know the name but wouldn’t know the logo. All these infractions are issues that marred the election,” he stated.