George Moghalu, the Labour Party candidate in Saturday’s Anambra State governorship election, has explained why he did not win his polling unit.
In an interview with Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’, Moghalu blamed his polling unit defeat on vote-buying by some of the contestants.
He claimed he couldn’t afford to match the amounts other candidates were offering voters, so he declined to engage in vote-buying.
According to him, many voters in his polling unit succumbed to the temptation of money due to their financial struggles.
“Yes, because I couldn’t afford how much that was being paid. I couldn’t pay, and I refused to pay, I refused to get involved.
“So, they have too much money to buy votes, and what do you expect my people to do? They fell because a lot of them are poor,” he said.
Moghalu specifically accused the ruling party in Anambra, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, of being the main culprit behind the alleged vote-buying activities.
He revealed that several party agents, some of whom had been arrested for vote-buying, were seen wearing APGA party tags.
“Some of them are on record as having been seen purchasing votes.
“There’s even a commissioner who was also caught on camera buying votes in my particular constituency,” Moghalu added.
Credit: The Sun