President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday gave an assurance that nobody will rig the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.
The President spoke at a grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rally held in Onitsha, the state commercial hub.
He warned that any party or candidate, no matter how popular or highly placed found to have indulged in any form of rigging or electoral malpractices would be dealt with accordingly.
Jonathan, who spoke yesterday at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha during the rally, declared: "Nobody will allow election rigging in Anambra State as the Federal Government, security agencies and Independent national Electoral Commission, INEC, have been positioned to carry out their duties without fear of favour.".
Jonathan, who affirmed his support for PDP candidate in the election, Comrade Tony Nwoye, stated that the election would now afford Anambra State the opportunity to regain her rightful position in the political mainstream after the November 16 governorship election.
He also stated that Nwoye had shown some leadership attributes and called on the electorate to shun party affiliations and vote for a PDP candidate.
The President eulogized the enterprising attributes of Anambra people, even as he disclosed that although the state was one of the smallest in the country's land mass, it was blessed with rich and enterprising people.
Earlier in his speech, the national chairman of PDP, Alhaji Bamangar Tukur, rhetorically asked why Anambra people should take the back seat in the country's political scheme and urged the electorate to vote in Nwoye as he was poised to transform the state.
Also speaking, the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio remarked that Anambra State should vote for Nwoye.
The state chairman of the PDP, Chief Ken Emeakayi assured that PDP would take over the state come March 17, 2014.
Prince Arthur Eze, a PDP financier and Hon. Anayo Nnebe, former Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, said Jonathan would not be foolish enough to abandon his biological child-PDP and go for his adopted child, another party.
Well even with the assurance of the president of Nigeria the election did not still go according to plan.