Vote to avoid state of emergency, Oduah tells voters

Senator Stella Oduah (Anambra North) has urged the electorate to come out en masse and vote peacefully in Saturday’s governorship election to avoid creating a vacuum of governance in the state.

Addressing reporters yesterday in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Princess Oduah said: “Therefore, if we fail to cast our votes, if we fail to come out to vote and have a new governor, what will happen is that the Federal Government will provide an administrator and declare a state of emergency.

“That is not what we want. It means that democracy will elude us; who is governing us would not be who we voted for or who we desired…”