Progressive Media Team of the All Progressives Congress APC, has said there was no election in Anambra for the party ahead of the November 6 Governorship election in the state.
The members of the team in their release signed by their seven executives regretted that the purported election was manipulated.
Those who signed the release include, Hon. Tochukwu Onyedibe, Hon. Jude Oruola, Hon. Ekene Onyido, Hon. Johnson Okoye, Hon Ebube Ezeokafor, Hon. Afam Eboh, Hon Gozie Aniebonam.
According to them, “The Progressive Media Team of All progressive Congress which is the umbrella body of all the Media Team of over Nine Governorship Aspirants of our great Party for Anambra 2021 APC Governorship Primary election who came together to address the injustices in the party as it concerns the purported primary election of the party in the state on 26th June 2021.
Ladies and Gentlemen, as you all know on the 26th day of June, 2021, our Great Party was supposed to have held its primary in 326 Wards of the state in order to elect the Gubernatorial Candidate of the party for the November 6, 2021 Governorship election in the state. We want to state it categorically clear that no Primary election was held anywhere in the state and the purported declaration of anybody by Governor Dapo Abiodun led APC Primary election committee in the state only exists in the imagination of the committee and their collaborators in the state. The members of our great party across the 326 political wards in the state are still waiting for the electoral committee since 26th June, 2021 to carry out their assignment for the party in the state.
Ladies and gentlemen, the essence of this press conference is to debunk all sorts of press conferences being championed by some unscrupulous elements in the party parading themselves as patriots, media frontiers etc. These groups of persons have no moral standing, integrity and character in our great party. They are known to be money influenced and induced politicians. We challenge all these elements that are out there to ridicule our party and their members to shows the world the evidence of where they were on the line at their various wards voting for the preferred choice of Aspirants on that day.
We want to state it here that what Governor Dapo Abiodun did in Anambra state and the progressive family of APC in the state is the most unbelievable show of disregard to the Leader of our great party, Senator Chris Ngige and long committed members of our party in the state. We want to know where Governor Dapo Abiodun got all the figures he announced to the world. This is pure madness and we wonder how such a man can involve himself in this kind of electoral fraud and heist in the history of Nigeria. We are really disappointed with this Governor and such character has no place in the progressive party like All Progressive Congress. The Governor has proven his untrustworthiness and lacking the character and integrity to be called a progressive and the nitty-gritty for future national assignment and has dented his personality with this charade.
We want the general public, Mr. President and the National Working Committee of our great party to know that the figures allocated to various Aspirants by Governor Dapo Abiodun do not owe to the participation of Anambra APC members in any primary because no primary election was held anywhere in the 326 wards. This is our position, which has been re-affirmed by the generality of the party leaders, Elders of our Party, Local Government Chairmen of our Party who are the custodian of the party at various Local Governments.
A good example is Aguata Local Government Chairman of APC, Hon. Paulchuks Umenduka who is from the same local Government with Senator Andy Uba, High Chief Johnbosco Onukwo and Rev. Godwin Okonkwo, who has come out in public to say there is no accreditation, voting and collation of result in His Local Government on that day. What this means is that there is no election in his Local Government, where the so-called winner merged from. We want to ask Governor Dapo, how can election take place in the Local Government, yet the Local Government Chairman and ward executives are not aware of the exercise.
It is important to note that as at 5:00pm on Saturday 26th June, 2021, there was no sign of any APC Primary election taking place anywhere despite the large turnout of APC Members to exercise their rights. Also, Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), some media houses and accredited observers for the Primary election have spoken with one voice that there was no primary election.
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you can recall, this type of charade took place during APC 2019 National Assembly Primary Election in Anambra State, where the same Man, Senator Andy Uba hijacked the committee led by Barr. Mrs. Bisi Idaomi committee for the primary election and the primary election results were announced from the comfort of their hotel rooms, the resultant effect is the disgraceful outing for the party and President Buhari in the 2019 election in the state. It is on record that numbers of invalid votes were higher than the number of votes cast for APC Anambra South Senatorial zone. The same for Anambra North and Anambra Central. History is about to repeat itself again if this charade is not addressed properly.
We call on the party to sanction Senator Andy Uba and Governor Dapo Abiodun who were arrowheads behind this charade. There must be consequences for people’s actions.”
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