Anambra 2021: Igbo in Diaspora move against violence, poll manipulations

Igbo leaders in the Diaspora have vowed to employ any legal means to resist attempts by anyone or political party to manipulate the Anambra state November 6 governorship election.

The leaders also viewed the security challenges bedevilling the state and other parts of the Southeast region as an alleged ploy to intimidate, cause apathy and rig the poll.

The Igbo leaders who made their intentions known in Awka via zoom, at the launch of 2021 Anambra gubernatorial-poll Anti-Fraud Situation Room, a platform set up to checkmate and prevent electoral violence and manipulations by the Civil Society Committee for Anti-fraud Election Security (CISCAES) in collaboration with the Anambra State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

The chairman, Igbo World Assembly, Chief Nwachukwu Anikwenze, said allowing Anambra state to be destabilised would create rooms for the country to retrogress.

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Earlier, the convener, CISCAES, Comrade Kennedy Iyere, said the situation room was positioned to act as a voice to the voiceless, and a platform to reach out to the world on the goings in the state, especially during the governorship poll.