Justice Inyang Ekwo-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday nullified the APC primaries which saw the emergence of Uba as the party’s governorship candidate in the November 6 election.
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Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, held that Uba was never a candidate in the election having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Indeed, many had expected that the leadership of the party, rather than resort to bickering, would rally its rank and file together for a proper post election self appraisal, take some lessons from their actions or shortcomings before, during and after the exercise, in order to make some positive changes in the future.
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in penultimate week’s governorship election in Anambra state, Senator Andy Uba, has lashed…
Uba said this in a statement titled, ‘Senator Andy Uba Rejects the outcome of Anambra Governorship Election,’ signed by the spokesman for his campaign organisation, Jerry Ugokwe, on Thursday.
The APC chieftain made his position known on in an interview he granted the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday.
He made the commendation during a press interview in Uga, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra on Saturday when he arrived his Uga Ward 1 to cast his vote at polling unit 17.
He told reporters after voting at the Okwute Primary School, Uga, that with the number of defections of major political bigwigs to APC, it would be almost impossible for him to lose the election.
Ojukwu’s widow had on Thursday, November 4, in a public letter addressed to her late husband, entitled “Letter to Dim Ojukwu on the upcoming Anambra election on this symbolic anniversary”, expressed disappointment at the manner “Obiano together with his locust men hijacked our political habitat APGA, and plundered and destroyed the house you toiled night and day to build…”
Therefore, from this foundational framework, there is no gainsaying that the higher the numbers, the brighter the collective fortunes of groups or individuals that populate a given political party.
Ogene spoke on the issue on Saturday, saying it was very unfortunate that people play politics with everything.
Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, had while speaking on Channels TV programme, Politics Today, on Thursday shocked the show’s host, Seun Okinbaloye, and viewers when he could not put a figure to the state’s debt profile.
A national newspaper, Vanguard, had in its edition of Saturday, October 16, 2021 reported inter alia: “A Southeast governor and a top official of the Independent National Electoral Commission have run into trouble with security agencies over a princely sum of $4 million bribe doled out by the governor as bribe to compromise the November 6, gubernatorial election in Anambra state.”
The organization in a statement by Victor Ogene on Saturday, reacted to a social media campaign by APGA, insinuating that Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour, had backed out of Andy Uba project towards the November 6 governorship election in the state
In a statement signed by Victor Ogene, Director, Media and Publicity of the organization on Thursday, the governor was challenged “to come off the high horse he bestrides and frontally tackle the deteriorating insecurity in the state, the governor appears to have woken up.
The governor, allegedly, threatened to withhold the salaries of civil servants who fail to comply by Wednesday, October 6, 2021.
In a statement by Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, Director, Media and Publicity, Uba said Obiano “engages in endless buck passing”
The governorship candidate, Senator Andy Uba, announced the postponement in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
This comes same day the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Andy Uba, also suspended campaigns.
Hon. Ogene, a former member of the House of Representatives, is also a long standing journalist with over 30 years of practice.