This development came barely 24 hours to the election and was confirmed by the hierarchy of the Force on Friday after the change
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Echeng Echeng, Commissioner of Police, issued the directive as part of security measures ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during the commission’s consultative meeting with leaders of political parties on Friday in Abuja.
A national newspaper, Vanguard, had in its edition of Saturday, October 16, 2021 reported inter alia: “A Southeast governor and a top official of the Independent National Electoral Commission have run into trouble with security agencies over a princely sum of $4 million bribe doled out by the governor as bribe to compromise the November 6, gubernatorial election in Anambra state.”
Okoye said the INEC met and considered a number of issues relating to the governorship election, including the latest court order
Uba levelled the allegation against Ayodele in a statement by the Andy Uba Campaign Council on Friday.
The list came as a surprise to many as prominent names, including that of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and Valentine Ozigbo, who were expected to be candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and Peoples Democratic Party were missing.