TALKING INEC OFFICIAL's FAMILY RECEIVES THREAT TO KEEP QUIET OR ...FACE THE MUSIC

Onukaogu , INEC Electoral Commisioner Anambra state

A principal actor in the controversial Anambra governorship election of November 16 made sterling revelations to his interrogators in Abuja. Mr Okeke Chukwujekwu, the electoral officer in charge of Idemili North local government area of Anambra State, currently in police detention over his role in the electoral saga, w as said to have told 

police investigators that he was “being used and dumped”. A top official involved in the election confided in  yesterday that the arrested INEC official had made useful statements even as he was apprehensive that top directors of INEC might be “implicated”. 

It is clear that preliminary confessions” point to the fact that the bungled election in most LGAs of the state was “packaged by aggrieved politicians in connivance with top INEC officials both in Abuja and Awka” adding: “It was a well-funded package.” 

“All fingers point to some aggrieved politicians and it was a well-funded package that involved quite a lot of people; that is why the man is saying he has been used and dumped,” he said. 

“The way this whole thing is going, it looks as if many heads will roll in INEC because the young man has made useful statements and if what he said is anything to rely upon, it then means that some big names in that commission might fall with him.

He is the one who masterminded the appointment of NYSC members known to him to Idemili zone  on the plan that they will on that faithful day embark on a strike claiming non payment of salaries. What a day and time to choose this strike, what a co incidence . He revealed some names and sponsors to the chagrin of some APGA agents who master minded and funded the exercise. The electoral commisioner and returning officer both from Nnamdi Azikiwe Univeristy are implicated as well as Victor Umeh and Peter Obi in the bigger picture . Information reaching us is that his family has now received threats from APGA emmisaries to shut up or face the consequences .

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, had, in the heat of the controversies generated by the flawed poll, admitted that the “electoral officer” in Idemili North “messed up” and that he would be handed over to the police for prosecution. 

Chukwujekwu was moved to Abuja on Sunday, just as INEC said it was conducting a probe into the deliberate sabotage of the governorship election.