A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Joe Igbokwe, has taken a swipe at Ndigbo for rejecting the All Progressives Congress in the yet to be concluded Anambra governorship election.
Igbokwe, an aide to Lagos State Governor who hails from Nnewi asserted that the Igbo people of Nigeria “will continue to be onlookers” in the country’s politics accusing them of still practicing “ethnic politics”.
“I had thought that Igbo will move beyond ethnic politics and work to connect to the center to meet other Nigerian, but ife ji Ndigbo jisi ha Ike (what’s holding the Igbos is strong).
We will continue to be onlookers,” Igbokwe wrote on his known Facebook page late on Sunday.
Anambra governorship election has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The state Returning Officer for the election, Florence Obi, the vice-chancellor of University of Calabar, who made the declaration in the early hours of Monday, around 12:20 a.m., said this was because there was no election in Ihiala Local Government Area which has over 148,000 registered voters.
INEC could not deploy voting materials to Ihiala during Saturday’s election due to security threat, she said.
Charles Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), scored a total of 103,946 votes and won the election in 18 out of the 21 local government areas of the state.
His closest rival, Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) garnered 51,322 and won in only one local government area.
