The September 28 local government election in Anambra state has been described as critical to the state’s grassroots development. As such, it should be conducted responsibly to reflect the people’s true yearnings.Â
The Anambra State President of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees ( NULGE), Comrade Nicholas Aromeh, gave the view at a function organized in the union’s secretariat complex in Awka. He said Governor Chukwuma Soludo had taken the bulls by the horns by deeming the local election necessary in his first tenure in office in the state.
The State Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, has fixed the local government elections in the state for the 28th of this month, with campaigns ongoing in the build-up.
The NULGE boss maintained that if the election were conducted under the electoral laws, leaders with impeccable character, integrity, fear of God, and, above all, the people’s welfare would emerge as the winners at the polls.
He urged the state’s people to guard against all forms of nefarious activities that could mar the election, detrimenting the Anambra people and the entire local government system in the state.
Aromeh charged the ANSIEC to provide an enabling environment for all eligible voters in the state to cast their votes freely at the polls without any iota of intimidation or molestation.
Comrade Aromeh, who pleaded with the stakeholders of NULGE in the state to wade into the crisis, rocking the union for some time now to find a lasting solution to the crisis, noted that his leadership would not succeed or achieve much in a chaotic environment.
“This work is not for me and my entire executive members alone because it is tedious. On this note, I am pleading with some of us who have instituted court cases against the union for a reason best known to them to withdraw those cases or cases now for the overall interest of the union”, Comrade Aromeh added.
