At the state congress, Chief Chuks Chinwuba, a former secretary of Onitsha North Local Government was elected as chairman while Chief Samuel Igwedibia became the deputy chairman.
Also, Chief J.P.C Obikwelu was elected state secretary, while the woman leader is Mrs. Modesta Okagbue. Henry Emerah is the state youth leader.
With the party’s executive in place, all is set for the primaries to be conducted for Senator Chris Ngige and Chief Godwin Ezemo, today.
The congress was supervised by a special committee headed by Chief Romeo Anyisia, who appealed to members to jettison parochial sentiments in the forthcoming election so as to elect persons with tested credentials.
In his acceptance speech, Chinwuba, thanked the members for their sense of duty and commitment and assured that the new leadership would not disappoint them.
He said the party would give the two governorship aspirants equal opportunity to actualize their ambition urging them to eschew any form of rumour over bias on the part of the party executive members.
Anambra CPC pulls out of APC, joins PDM
THE Anambra State branch of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC) which is one of the three political parties that merged to form the All Progressives Congress, APC, has pulled out of the merger arrangement and joined the newly formed Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM.
Former Anambra State chairman of CPC, Prince Chuba Ikwagwu, who is the interim state chairman of PDM, told Vanguard yesterday that the over 25000 members and all the structures of CPC in the 326 wards of the state have been transferred to PDM.
Vanguard gathered yesterday that one of the governorship aspirants on the platform of APC, Mr. Hygers Igwebuike, has also joined PDM as its aspirant for the November 16 governorship election.
Giving reasons for pulling out of APC, Ikeagwu said the party had failed to comply with tenets of democracy, adding that its leaders were more interested in manipulating situations to suit their selfish interests.
Claiming that lack of internal democracy might destroy APC in Anambra, he said:
“We are talking of democracy where everybody will have equal say, equal right and fair participation, but what transpired in APC is so undemocratic and those of us who love democracy do not fit into such environment.
“ Up till this moment, there is no state executive of APC. The four state chairmen of the political parties that merged to form the party were asked to come together to form the state executive but nothing has happened.
“ As we are talking, there has not been any harmonization and APC has not held its congresses and party primaries and we therefore say that instead of staying where nothing is happening, we should pull out.
As the former CPC has pulled out to join PDM, many former members of All Nigeria Peoples Party, (ANPP) have also joined us in PDM.”
ADC vows it won’t be business-as-usual
AFRICAN Democratic Congress, (ADC) has picked Chief Anayo Arinze, a journalist, as its flag bearer for the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.
The party also said it is determined to change the way of doing things in the state.
National Chairman of ADC, Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, while addressing delegates at its primaries in Awka warned that if Anambra people continue to do business-as-usual, the state would remain underdeveloped.
He said: “There is so much corruption in the system and ADC abhors corruption. This party believes that we have the human and natural resources to make Nigeria better and that can only happen if the right things are done.”
According to him, some recurring names in Anambra politics are at it again, polluting the environment with their questionable wealth and hoping to use such wealth to move to Government House.
He warned that giving such people chance meant dragging the state backwards.
The governorship candidate of the party, Anayo Arinze, who was elected unopposed, said that those who hope to use their money to buy the people’s conscience would be disappointed because ‘Anambra is not for sale.’
His words: “There are people sharing money for the purpose of this election and they believe that Government House is for the highest bidder, but they will be disappointed. My advice to the voters is that they should take the money and still vote wisely.”
Delegates from all the 21 local government areas of the state participated in the primaries.
APA nominates Udeogaranya as flag bearer
Chief Udoka Udeogaranya has been nominated as the governorship candidate of the African Peoples Alliance, APA, one of the newly registered political parties.
Udeogaranya, a Lagos –based businessman, is from Ihiala in Anambra South senatorial zone.
In his acceptance speech, Udeogaranya reminded the delegates, who came from all the 21 local government areas of the state of the enormous task ahead, urging them to sell the programmes of the party to the grassroots to ensure that it wins the forthcoming election.
The primaries was supervised by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Ifeanyi Ubah picks running mate
Labour Party Candidate, Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, has picked Dr Emeka Eze as his running mate.
He said in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Ayo Akinola, that the choice of Eze was based on his “accomplishment as a medical doctor whose practice experience spans more than two decades.
He is the managing director of Toronto Hospital Limited. Belonging to the younger generation and a professional, the statement added that “Prince Eze is articulate and dynamic in thinking, he is poised to strike a balance to Dr Ubah who hails from Nnewi South Senatorial Zone”.
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