By Kamsi Anayo
The supplementary election for the Ogbaru Federal Constituency in Anambra state turned out to be a qdrama, featuring vote buying, manifest official lateness by electoral officials and other theaterics.
Visits to the various polling units across the Ogbaru area revealed that some of the registered voters who had exhausted their patience had gone home, while some who went home earlier had returned the second time, before the arrival of the electoral officials.
Electoral officials arrived the polling units at about 10:27am, against the 8.am scheduled time for commencement of the exercise.
A concerned citizen in the Kala area of the Constituency, Paschal Candle, also told this reporter that the area had been taken over by the officials of the Department of State Service (DSS), who are on ground to ensure smooth conduct of the exercise.
He further hinted that some political thugs had been arrested in the area, following their threats of l disruption to the election.
Aside these, further updates revealed that massive vote buying is currently ongoing at many polling units in the area, most especially at Okpoko community, where the moneybags currently buy each vote for ₦10,000 (ten thousand).
