Analysis
Nigeria Politics 101: If Obiano doesn’t like APGA primary winner, he cancels it!
Obiano seems to saying to APGA: Hold your primary, but If I don’t like the winner, I cancel it!
Following the failure of the favoured aspirant, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu to secure the Anambra South senatorial district ticket, the All Progressives Grand Alliance [APGA] leadership has refused to validate the result.
News from the National Secretariat Abuja also indicate APGA National Working Committee [NWC] has cancelled the primary election of Nnewi south state constituency II following the loss of Madam Speaker, Rt. Hon. Rita Maduagwu.
The election was reportedly won by Hon Chieloka Henry Okoye.
ElombahNews, on Wednesday, reported that Mrs. Ojukwu lost the seat to Mr. Nicholas Ukachukwu, popularly known as Ikuku Oma.
The report further stated that the delegates decided to vote Ikuku Oma over the callous treatment meted out on Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah ahead of APGA primaries.
The drama had begun two days earlier with the announced disqualification of oil mogul businessman Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah for a strange new political excuse of “waiver not obtained”.
This was against the widely circulated information that both the party and Gov Obiano was going against an agreement he had with Dr. Ubah, and brokered by some Anambra elites.
APGA statutory delegates were very angry with what Governor Willie Obiano did to Ifeanyi Ubah and the hijack of APGA by Aguleri indigenes and handed a protest vote to Ikuku Oma.
Party faithfuls have reasoned that whether APGA would survive beyond Obiano and the incumbent Victor Oye executive would depend on how this election matters were tackled.
Besides Dr. Ubah, the party also disqualified Chinedu Ekwealor who is the only challenger against Prince Chinedu Emeka for Anambra north senatorial zone.
Senator Stella Oduah had left the party in anger following the ignominious way she was treated despite the understanding she reached with them which made her join the party earlier.
She left the moment they started recanting on the agreement.
Political watchers posited that whatever Obiano and Oye end up with as final decision must be in the growth and future interest of the party, or it would just sing the party’s nunc dimitis.
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