Senator Victor Umeh made the disclosure at the inauguration of the Awka North Local Government Chapter of his Campaign Organisation at Isu-Aniocha near Awka on Monday.
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The three-man tribunal, presided by Justice H. A. Olusiyi, Justice A. O. Ayoola, and Justice A. U. Birnin Kudu dismissed the five reliefs sought by the petitioner as lacking merit and the inability of the applicant to proof his case.
Umeh had asked God to forgive him and other members of APGA for making Okorocha the governor of Imo State in 2011, saying he never knew that he would turn out to be a pain in the neck of his people.
Umeh emerged as the senator of Anambra Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
The senatorial election took place in seven local governments of Anambra State.
Umeh, a former National Chairman of APGA, accompanied by his wife, Prisca and one of his daughters, made this known after casting his vote at his Aguluzigbo ward in Awka South Local Government Area at noon.
The Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal in Awka had nullified the election, which she purportedly won in the 2015 general elections on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party
He warned that APGA could not afford to be in leadership crisis especially at this time when preparations are being made for the gubernatorial election in Anambra
In a statement issued on Friday in Awka, the Anambra State capital, Ogene, who currently represents Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, stated that it would amount to hypocrisy of the highest order for Obiano to want to benefit from his perfidy of only a few days ago when he deployed state apparatus against the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari and the APC candidates in the just-concluded March 28, 2015 elections
However, Powl withdrew the prayer that the court should direct INEC to accept Okwu’s candidates
The flags were presented to the candidates, who would contest on the platform of APGA for the Anambra State House of Assembly and National Assembly at a rally in Awka
The party in a communique issued in Minna, the Niger State capital, after its inaugural meeting at the IBB Pen House, which was attended by 18 chairmen, led by its Chairman, Sardauna Yaro, who is also the APGA Chairman of Jigawa State, commended the stride of the party in Anambra State
Umeh, who was the party’s sole aspirant, was screened by a three-member panel, led by Alhaji Tayo Sowunmi, the National Vice-Chairman (South-West) of the party
Chief Umeh, who welcomed over 7,000 decampees from the All Progressives Congress and the Labour Party to APGA in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said the arch-rival APC is dead in Delta State
Okwu’s statement comes on the heels of the judgment by an Abuja High Court that he is the bona fide National Chairman of APGA in place of Chief Victor Umeh
Kafarati declared that the tenure of the Umeh-led faction had constitutionally expired and ordered it dissolved forthwith
He said: “I thank the judiciary for being firm by refusing to grant the request of the All Progressives Congress at the Federal High Court, Awka, seeking to stop today’s local government elections
Nasarawa told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka that the state Police Command was interrogating the official of the Independent National Electoral Commission but declined to mention the presumed offence
Giving ruling in an exparte motion seeking a leave to serve the respondents the motion of notice, Justice A.R. Mohammed held that the prayer of the applicants were not out of place
Okwu told newsmen that the judgement, which nullified a high court judgment against the faction led by Chief Victor Umeh, was unacceptable