Tobi Adebayo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has blamed the low turnout of voters during the November 6 governorship election in Anambra on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
INEC’s Supervising Residence Electoral Commissioner in Anambra State, Sam Egwu said this while featuring on Channels Television.
Recall that the group had cancelled the order some hours before the election.
However, Egwu said that the order had instiled fear into the residents which resulted in low turnout at polling units.
“There is a whole state of fear that has been created by the politics of agitation for a separate state in this part of the country.
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“IPOB has been able to enforce the sit-at-home order over time. So the fear of IPOB has become the beginning of wisdom.
“We have had a problem with extremely low voter turnout. The voter turnout, I think, if you are scientific in terms of what we are seeing in many local governments, you are actually dealing with less than 25 per cent voter turnout, and this is not really good for our democracy,” he said.
