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Mr Frank Nweke Jr, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Enugu State for the March 11, 2023 governorship election has raised the alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party has engaged the services of the Independent National Electoral Commission to rig the polls.   Nweke, former Minister of Information, who made the allegation at a press conference in Enugu, on Friday, alleged that the INEC officials and ad hoc staff members had been detailed to bypass the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during the election in order to rig the outcome.

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Enugu State, Mr. Frank Nweke Jr., on Friday, alleged that the ruling Peoples

Some eligible voters who lost their permanent voter cards and applied for re-issuance claim they are yet to obtain them from their chosen local government areas because of the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reprint them. BEN AROH digs into the options left for those in Enugu State as Feb 25 election closes in._

An Enugu State High Court on Wednesday ordered a substituted service on the chairman of the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah and the governorship candidate, Chief Uche Nnaji. The substituted service was issued in a legal action filed by the leader of the Concerned Enugu APC Members, Comrade Adolphus Ude, seeking an order of the court compelling the duo to account for N2.5 billion party funds allegedly embezzled by them.

Land racketeering and grabbing in Enugu State under the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi have now reached an alarming height with the same land allotted to different individuals and each having the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) and other titles. SaharaReporters reported in August 2022 how Ugwuanyi's appointees and close associates with some top government officials floated a private company to off take revoked landed properties of residents and investors, and resold the same.