Former deputy Governor of Abia State, Enyinnaya Abaribe, says the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) naira policy which caused a cash crunch and the use of BVAS during the election, aided his victory in the just concluded 2023 general elections.
Abaribe contested and won the election on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) after the PDP had denied him the ticket for Abia South Senatorial District.
According to the former Senate minority leader, irregularities that would have denied him victory were curbed.
The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain said this at a two-day seminar organised by Media Educational Development Initiative for Africa with the theme, “Peace Journalism and Consolidation of Democracy in Nigeria,” for a select few journalists in Abuja.
The lawmaker said his opponents could not manufacture results due to the measures already put in place ahead of the presidential and national assembly election.
In his words, “I benefited from BVAS. The technology was right, the only issue is that we have to eliminate human interference.”
Commenting on peace journalism in the country, he said that the conference for media and peace initiatives should be held more for politicians, not journalists.
“On peace journalism, I still think maybe those of us that are politicians are people that need this seminar more than journalists. You don’t tell journalists not to do their job,” he said.
