Former Aviation Minister, ex Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC, Chief Osita Chidoka has decried the turnout of voters for the just concluded Anambra State governorship election just as he said that there are ‘mad people everywhere.’
Chidoka in a Facebook post on Thursday also asked ‘if voters don’t count, why did the Politicians buy votes?’
He lamented that at an average of N3,000 per vote, a Governor can be elected with less than 350 million Naira by a hungry minority.
He noted that 104,037 voters determined the winner of the Anambra guber election which according to him is less than 5 per cent of registered voters and that if one million voters had come out, it would have been difficult for Prof Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to have won the election.
He said: ‘You sat at home screaming No Elections, 104,037 voters determined the Governor of Anambra State, less than 5 per cent of registered voters.
‘The elected Governor will oversee state budget of at least 400 billion Naira over the next four years. If you add Local Government funds, it will be over 700 billion Naira.
‘You sat at home and said voting does not count, the election is already rigged.
Two hundred nineteen thousand five hundred eighteen persons (219,518) less than 10% of registered voters went out, and the parties bought votes from between 1000 and 5000 Naira per vote.
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‘If voters don’t count, why did the Politicians buy votes? At an average of 3,000 per vote, a Governor can be elected with less than 350 million Naira by a hungry minority. If 1m voters had come out, it would have been difficult.
‘Mad people everywhere.
