Some voters in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, have claimed that they were offered small amounts of money to vote.<\/p>\n
A voter, speaking off-camera to the Anambra Broadcasting Cooperation (ABS), expressed anger over the situation.<\/p>\n
According to the voter, as at 9:00 am, no one was at the Central School, Obosi, where the voting took place.<\/p>\n
She explained that an announcement was later made, urging residents to come out and cast their votes.<\/p>\n
She said many people responded and turned out to exercise their civic duty, only to be given \u20a61,000 afterwards.<\/p>\n
She described the amount as \u201ctoo small,\u201d considering the stress they went through to participate in the election.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a 21-year-old first-time voter, Chinyere Aniwetalu, has admitted to being paid to vote at Nteje Ward 1, Amuda Village Square Polling Unit 12, in the Saturday Anambra governorship election.<\/p>\n
Abia Radio News<\/strong> learnt that Chinyere, who spoke with journalists, confirmed receiving money but declined to disclose how much or the political party that paid her.<\/p>\n While expressing excitement about her participation in the election after years of waiting to reach voting age, Chinyere said, \u201cI was paid to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n She explained that she was unable to vote in the 2023 general election because she did not have a Permanent Voter\u2019s Card (PVC) at the time.<\/p>\n She said, \u201cI just got my PVC this year, and I\u2019m happy to use it today.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n At the polling unit, most of the voting had been completed by midday, with several voters seen loitering around, waiting for the sorting of ballots.<\/p>\n INEC officials at the centre told journalists that the process began early, at about 8:00 a.m., and had been smooth so far, although they were still expecting more voters to turn up before the polls closed.<\/p>\n The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, remains a top contender for the governorship poll.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some voters in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, have claimed that they were offered small amounts of money to vote. A voter, speaking off-camera to the Anambra Broadcasting Cooperation (ABS), expressed anger over the situation. According to the voter, as at 9:00 am, no one was at the Central School, Obosi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2297,805],"class_list":["post-237216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-anambradecides","tag-anambra-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Map-of-Anambra-State-Nigeria-1000x600.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}