Anambra disappointed all after all. Awka and its environs were calm few hours after last Saturday’s governorship election. The tension and uncertainty that enveloped Anambra in the build-up turned out much ado about nothing after it was all over. Immediately after poll ended, it was as if nothing happened.

Mr. Josiah Uwazuruonye is the Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview conducted immediately after the last Saturday governorship election, he spoke on the poll conduct and how politicians in connived with unscrupulous INEC officials to distort the voters’ register used in the election and efforts made to correct same. Excerpts:

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