Although controversies trail the concluded Anambra governorship election, the exercise has been commended for the absence of violence and the overall peace experienced.

The Director, Field Operations of the Ifeanyi Ubah Campaign Organisation, Ben Chuks-Nwosu, has said that this should be credited to his candidate’s account as he had taken the responsibility of educating the youths to be non-violent during the election.

“The hero of this election, whichever way you look at it, is Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah and the Labour Party. He went out of his way to talk to youths, to educate youths during campaigns.

“He called up the youths and said: no violence, don’t fight for me… and it worked.”

He also said that the security agents, who were deployed in large numbers to the state, did not have much work to do.

Speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, he described the entire election exercise as a simple process of ‘systematic rigging’ which was carried out in three ways including translocation of the voter register, missing names from voters register and unavailability of necessary materials for the exercise in some areas.

“We have not finished collating all the reports of disenfranchisement in some of the remote areas, he said.”

Mr Nwosu, who argued that his party had the ‘most robust of campaigns,’ said they ‘permeated like kerosene’ in Anambra state but their voters were disenfranchised.

He also said that his party refused to participate in the supplementary election because INEC did not state that it would correct the errors they pointed out.

He added that people were no longer interested because they believed the process had been compromised.