With three days to the 2023 general election in Nigeria, a hunter has found thousands of voter’s cards disposed inside a bush in Nnewi and took them to a radio station.
A radio station in Anambra State recorded a video of the drum-full of voter’s cards brought to their station.
According to a presenter at Authority Radio FM in Nnewi, a hunter brought the cards to the station after finding them discarded inside a bush in Nnewi North LGA, Anambra State.
“The names that we have here are all coming from the people who are from Nnewi North and of course the entire South East.
“These guys have looked for their PVCs, they have lost hope… How can someone do this? A few days to the general election of 2023 and this is what we’re seeing,” the radio presenter said.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the general elections will be held in Nigeria on 25 February 2023 to elect the President and Vice President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is ineligible to run, being term-limited.
With President Buhari having been elected to the office of president twice, he was ineligible for renomination. There was no formal zoning agreement for the APC nomination despite calls from politicians and interest groups such as the Southern Governors’ Forum to zone the nomination to the South as Buhari, a northerner, was elected twice.
The party held its indirect presidential primary on 8 June 2022 in Abuja and nominated Bola Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State.
In mid-June, the APC submitted the name of Kabir Ibrahim Masari—a politician and party operative from Katsina State—as a placeholder vice presidential nominee to be substituted at a later date.
On 10 July, Ibrahim Masari formally withdrew as vice presidential nominee and the later that day, Tinubu announced Kashim Shettima- Senator for Borno Central and former Governor of Borno State- as his replacement.