Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, the Senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Sly Eze Okenwa, yesterday, tasked Imo voters to guard their votes jealously, prevent ballot snatchers and thugs from re-writing the outcome of the upcoming poll.

Soludo, represented by his deputy, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Abaribe and Okenwa gave the advice, in Owerri, while flagging off the campaign of the APGA governorship candidate in the state, Tony Ejiogu.

Soludo said: “What is ours we shall take. Let us speak in one voice and take back our state. We must pursue our winning votes to the polling booths; to the council collation centres; to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters until the result is announced. Go and learn how Anambra did it and replicate that in Imo.”

In his speech, Okenwa recalled that the party’s candidate in 2003, the late Ezekiel Izuogu, won; Martin Agbaso, in 2007; but were allegedly denied, stressing that it was only in 2011, when Rochas Okorocha won it and was sincerely given the opportunity to be sworn in before he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Okenwa also described Ejiogu as a liberator and emancipator carefully chosen to stand for the upcoming election, urging all eyes to be on the votes.

Abaribe, on his own part, recalled how he scuttled the ambition of the immediate past governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, from going to the Senate.