After several days of speculations and political horse trading, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress ...
After several days of speculations and political horse trading, the National
Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
submitted the name of Hon. Tony Nwoye to the Independent National
Electoral (INEC) as its candidate for the November 18 governorship
election in Anambra state.
The party also
issued a certificate of return to Nwoye as the party’s candidate against
the recommendation of the Appeal panel, calling for the outright
cancelation of the primary election.
The appeals
panel had told the National Working Committee that most of the aspirants
who contested the primary led by Sen Andy Uba, questioned Nwoye’s
emergence, demanding a repeat of the exercise.
However, the
Chairman of the Committee that conducted the primary and Borno state
governor, Kashim Shettima on his part told the party that non of the
aspirants questioned the integrity of the primary through out the
exercise.
On his part,
Senator Andy Uba who wanted an outright cancelation of the primary and
declaring him winner, Sen Uba wrote: “I complained to some members of
the Primary Election Committee sent from the headquarters of the party.
To be frank, I continued with the exercise in protest after observing
all these irregularities. Most of the disgruntled delegates of the
primary election have gone to various courts to depose to an affidavit
of events that transpired.”
The Nation was informed that the Appeal panel recommended a repeat of the governorship poll.
However,
rising from a crucial meeting at the party national secretariat on
Monday, decided to forward Nwoye’s name to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) in order to meet the deadline for submission
of names of candidates for the election.
National
Organising Secretary Osita Izunazo, who confirmed the development told
newsmen that the NWC threw out Sen. Uba’s petition against Nwoye and
also overruled the recommendation of the Appeal panel for total
concelation of the primary poll.
“I can confirm
to you that the NWC has issued certificate of return to Tony Nwoye as
APC governorship candidate for November 18, Anambra election.”
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