The malaise with the governing All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) seems to have infected most of the big political parties, as the countdown to the November 6 governorship poll begins.
Although all seems to be calm, suspense still fills the air, as the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to publish the final list of candidates staring for the 18 registered political parties.
APGA, under Oye, insists that Prof Soludo is the duly nominated candidate of the party to contest the governorship poll. And reacting to the Kano Appeal Court judgment, Oye, through the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Tex Okechukwu, described the appeal judgement as a watershed in the nation’s polity.
Consequently, the APGA national chairman, Oye, pleaded with INEC to do the needful without further delay by enlisting Prof. Soludo as the party’s candidate for the November 6 poll. Based on the findings of the Court of Appeal Kano, it is now clear that INEC “issued nomination papers and documents to a stranger, and alien to APGA for them to fill and return same day for their names to be filled as APGA candidate.”
Etiaba contended that he did not join APC and the race for Anambra State governorship just for the sake of it or as a strategy to open doors for national deals. He stressed that he kept away from politics and governance when his mother was deputy governor and governor for the simple reason that he knew ‘a day like this will come.’
“We tried to see if we could come together and build a consensus, but that didn’t happen. So, we had to live with the choice the party made. But, if I say I am coming to serve my people altruistically, it means that that ambition came to a halt the moment; APC couldn’t change their decision. Okonkwo challenged PDP to explain what happened to the unaccounted 17 delegate votes. He alleged that the organisers of the primary ran out of ideas and decided to short-change him by discounting those 17 votes that would have put him in the lead.
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