An Enugu-based group, Concerned Indigenes of Anambra State (CIAS), has vowed to mobilise Anambra people living in Enugu State to vote against the Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, in tomorrow’selection, for alleged breach of trust.
The group said the governor did not keep his promise to mobilise votes for Atiku/Obi ticket in the recently held Presidential and National Assembly polls.
In a statement released last week and signed by the group’s interim Chairman, Chief Nnamdi Maduka, CIAS accused the governor, who is the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the state of reneging on all the agreements they had with him to deliver 80 per cent of the registered voters in Enugu to their son, Peter Obi, the vice presidential candidate of the opposition PDP in the light of the fact that “the governor of Anambra State appeared hell bent on not supporting Atiku/Obi but the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, President Buhari.”
Chief Nnamdi Maduka, in the statement, said: “We are completely disappointed with the governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for not fulfilling his own side of the bargain. Anambra Indigenes in Enugu State raised N155 million for the governor, to help him prosecute the election ‘properly’.
“We are, however, sad to hear the result of Enugu State after we had it on good authority that the machinery of the election was under the control of the governor, which explains why the PDP cleared all the National Assembly seats, even where they were very weak in the state.
“We, the Indigenes of Anambra State, resident in Enugu, have to pay the governor back in his own coins. Since he refused to mobilise votes for our son, we shall also vote against him this Saturday.
“They call this tit for tat! As I speak, all our people in Enugu State are mobilising our members and other aggrieved Igbo people against what was clearly an un-gentlemanly act. We shall vote APC. That is for sure.”