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  • BREAKING: Court nullifies APC candidate, Andy Uba’s participation in Anambra governorship poll

    BREAKING: Court nullifies APC candidate, Andy Uba’s participation in Anambra governorship poll

    The Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified Senator Andy Uba’s participation in the November 6 Anambra State governorship election.

    Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, held that Uba was never a candidate in the election having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The judge held that the plaintiff, George Moghalu, succeeded in proving that the APC did not conduct a valid primary election from which Uba claimed to have emerged as the party’s candidate.

    The judge ordered INEC to delete Uba from its record as a candidate in the election.

    He then ordered the APC to refund to the plaintiff the N22,500.000 he paid for expression of interest and nomination forms since the party failed to conduct a valid primary.

    Details shortly…

  • BREAKING: INEC declares 61-year-old Charles Soludo winner of Anambra governorship election

    BREAKING: INEC declares 61-year-old Charles Soludo winner of Anambra governorship election

    Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has swept to victory in the Anambra governorship elections, winning 19 of the 21 local government areas of the state.

    “That Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” said the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Chief Returning Officer for the poll, Professor Florence Obi, in announcing the outcome on Wednesday morning.

    Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (Mr Valentine Ozigbo) and Young Progressives Party (Senator Ifeanyi Ubah) each won a local government.

    But the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, was unable to win any local government in the election.

    Soludo, 61, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, secured 112,229 votes, twice more than his closes rival – PDP’s Ozigbo to be returned as winner of the election.

    Ozigbo had 53,807 votes while the other two frontline contenders – Uba and Ubah scored 43,285 and 21,261 votes respectively.

  • ‘It was long expected’, APGA reacts to Gov Obiano’s deputy’s defection to APC weeks to Anambra governorship poll

    ‘It was long expected’, APGA reacts to Gov Obiano’s deputy’s defection to APC weeks to Anambra governorship poll

    The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has reacted to the defection of the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr Nkem Okeke, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Okeke was led to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday (yesterday) by the Governor of Yobe State and Caretaker Committee chairman of the APC, Mai Muni Buni in company of the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma.

    However, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, APGA National Publicity Secretary, Tex Okechukwu, said the action of the deputy governor has no consequence of the party ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state.

    He added that the defection was long expected since Okeke had been grudging everyone over his inability to secure the party’s governorship ticket.

    “The deputy governor had thought that the governor (Willie Obiano) and the party were going to hand over the governorship ticket of the party in the last primary to him on a platter,” said Okechukwu.

    “When that didn’t happen, he started behaving abnormally, even to the point of insubordination and dereliction of duties.”

    Okechukwu, however, stated that APGA viewed the exit of the deputy governor, without formal notification to the party or his principal, as uncalled for, ill-timed, and ill-advised as the governor had always treated him with respect, love, and consideration.

    According to him, the party condemns the desperation being exhibited by the opposition APC in the build-up to the governorship election.

    The APGA spokesman also called on all members of the party to remain united to ensure that they win the election with wider margins.

    “Let nobody be deceived – APC has no root anywhere in Anambra State and that is why all that they do is going about luring political deadwood with money and other lucres,” Okechuchwu added.

    “No matter the designs of the opposition and other subterranean forces, APGA Is poised to win the forthcoming election and continue with the massive infrastructural development going on in the state.”