Annie Okonkwo hails
cancellation of Senator Ekwunife’s election
THE senator representing Abia North, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday expressed shock over the Appeal
Court’s nullification of the March 2015 election declaring him winner.
Meanwhile, Senator Annie Okonkwo, who was initially nominated by
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) listed by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) for the Anambra Central Senatorial District election, has
hailed the Court of Appeal’s verdict setting aside Uche Ekwunife’s
victory.
The Court had ordered a repeat of the Abia North Senatorial
election, saying that the process was marred by irregularities.
Reacting to the development in a chat with The Guardian, Ohuabunwa expressed the optimism that his constituents would again give their mandate for his return to the Senate at the repeat election. By the court judgment, the embattled senator will again face former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu of the Progressives People’s Alliance (PPA) and Dr. David Ogba Onuoha-Bourdex of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Reacting to the development in a chat with The Guardian, Ohuabunwa expressed the optimism that his constituents would again give their mandate for his return to the Senate at the repeat election. By the court judgment, the embattled senator will again face former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu of the Progressives People’s Alliance (PPA) and Dr. David Ogba Onuoha-Bourdex of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
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Ohuabunwa who had served two terms in the House of
Representatives, counseled voters in Abia North to insist on electing somebody
that already had legislative experience and specifically urged them to consider
what he referred to as his effective representation during which he said he
sponsored many bills.
For the Anambra Central Senatorial election, Annie Okonkwo
described the Appeal Court judgment as proper, timely and natural, “because the
constant beam of truth will always outshine the human burden of lies,
darkness and deceit, whether political or otherwise.”
A statement signed by the directorate of Senator Annie Okonkwo
Campaign Organisation, through its media adviser, Collins Steve Ugwu, said
Ekwunife was not and should not have been the flag bearer of the party in that
election.
He said: “Now that the scales should have fallen off the
eyes of the deceived, the manipulated and the manipulator, courtesy of our
dedicated judiciary, the last hope of the oppressed for every committed
democrat, we hoped that common sense would have prevailed even as an
afterthought for personal recompense and public conscience.
We are therefore not amused that citizen Uche Ekwunife who
ordinarily should be sobered by this clear constitutional declarations given
the wisdom of her political experiences, appear unperturbed and unmindful of
elementary party internal democratic norms as evident in her obvious
contemplation to re-run in the yet-to-be scheduled re-election as candidate of
our party, the PDP.
It calls for emphasis and we therefore so emphasise, that the
party primaries by the PDP to select candidates for that election after the
most rigorous, painful and costly processes for any senatorial zone in this
country, arrived at Senator Annie Okonkwo as the most popular and validly
nominated candidate of the PDP, ultimately endorsed and published as such by
INEC, and expectantly wished by Anambra Central electorates to wear the victory
cap, but for the reckless impunity of Aso Rock overlords then, which providence
and nemesis has through our able judiciary mercifully crushed.
This judicial liberation for our people will not just be as
short-lived as the impostors and their sponsors, but will be celebrated and
sealed permanently when the Supreme Court of our land rules again on it coming
January.
We are compelled therefore to make this clarifications for the
records as we did earlier, before this voyage dance of impunity orchestrated by
ready beats of foregone God fathers and mothers, that citizen Uche Ekwunife was
and could not have been a candidate for that election in the first place, much
less the winner, going by the extant and clear rules of engagement in party
primaries as established by our constitution and guiding electoral laws.
“We therefore call on our teeming supporters and stakeholders to tarry patiently, and rightly ignore the annoying noise from habitual betrayers, because in politics, noisemakers will always have their space, but the will of the people will certainly always have their way.”
“We therefore call on our teeming supporters and stakeholders to tarry patiently, and rightly ignore the annoying noise from habitual betrayers, because in politics, noisemakers will always have their space, but the will of the people will certainly always have their way.”
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