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  • Anambra 2021: Senator Uba emerges APC governorship candidate, 11 other aspirants reject results

    Anambra 2021: Senator Uba emerges APC governorship candidate, 11 other aspirants reject results

    A former Senator who represented Anambra South Senatorial District, Andy Uba, has been declared winner of the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

    Uba emerged the winner in the primary election contested by 13 other aspirants.

    Declaring the results of the exercise on Sunday morning at the Golden Tulips Hotel, Agulu, Anambra State, the Chairman of the Anambra State Primary Election Committee and Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, said Senator Ubah polled 230, 201 votes out of the total votes of 348,490, to defeat his closest rival, Onunwoku Johnbosco who polled 28, 746 and 12 other contestants.

    Abiodun said the election took place in 20 out of the 21 Local Government Areas of the state, noting that the election could not hold in Onitsha South due to the failure of the Returning Officers to conduct the election after collecting election materials from the committee’s secretariat.

    The governor further disclosed that an Option A-4 method was adopted in the election, and blamed the delay in the conduct of the election as scheduled on the failure of the contestants to supply 30 of their representatives as directed by the committee.

    According to him, only nine aspirants had supplied their representatives to the committee as at 9:00 am on Saturday.

    Abiodun explained that despite the minor hiccups, Returning Officers, backed by security escorts were posted to all the 326 wards in the state, declaring that “the process was free, fair, transparent and in line with the party’s guidelines, as promised by this committee”.

    The election committee chairman, however, debunked insinuations from some of the contestants that the exercise was deliberately delayed, pointing out that his committee only needed to be thorough and transparent.

    He added that the minor delay was not the fault of the committee or that of the party members, but that of logistics.

    Abiodun thanked party members and all stakeholders, especially the committee members, who according to him were carefully chosen for the task. He also called for all hands to be on deck to ensure victory for the party in the coming governorship election.

    No primary held in Anambra – 11 aspirants

    Meanwhile, eleven of the 14 governorship aspirants of the party have said the June 26 governorship primary in the state did not hold.
    Dr George Muoghalu, spokesperson for the aspirants, made the position of the group known in a press conference on Saturday in Awka.
    Muoghalu said that in all the 326 electoral Wards of the state, people came out, but were disappointed, saying that none of the APC team saddled with the responsibility to conduct the primary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials were seen.
    Muoghalu, the Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and one of the aspirants, said anybody who claimed that there was primary is fraudulent and did not wish APC well in the November 6 election.
    Paul Orajiaka and Edozie Madu, both aspirants, corroborated the position of Muoghalu and warned that the era when one man would come up with fake figure to claim victory is over.
    The aspirants, however, appealed to the party leadership to come up with a fresh date for the Anambra primary to ensure that the party beat the deadline in the Electoral Act.
    Other aspirants at the event were Johnbosco Onunkwo, Ben Etiaba, Amobi Nwaokafor, Chidozie Nwankwo, Geoffo Onyjegbu, Azuka Okwuosa, among others.
  • Overdue loans: Heritage Bank Management backs staffs’ protest at Senator Andy Ubah’s Abuja residence

    Overdue loans: Heritage Bank Management backs staffs’ protest at Senator Andy Ubah’s Abuja residence

    The management of Heritage Bank Plc has confirmed and declared its support for the peaceful protest the bank’s staff held at the Abuja residence of Senator Andy Uba on Monday over his indebtedness to the financial institution.

    This was disclosed by the Managing Director of the bank, Ifie Sekibo, via a message shared with the Bank’s staff.

    In the memo, he explained that the bank did not deliberately put the staff’s action on social media but the development is part of the bank’s effort to prioritize the recovery of all its outstanding loans.

    “Consequently, the recent visit of our colleagues was in line with our objective and solely to address the indebtedness of the customer.

    “I encourage us all to be bold and tenacious, fiercely engaging the market and refusing all forms of intimidation, which the current phase may present,” the memo read in part.

    Meanwhile, neither the bank nor the embattled senator have revealed the actual amount of loan payable.

  • Senator Andy Uba parading forged WAEC certificate, lawyer alleges

    Senator representing Anambra South Constituency, Andy Uba has been accused of forging the West African Examination Certificate, WAEC results that he parades.

    The allegation was made by his estranged lawyer, Victor Uwaje, on Wednesday.

    Uwaje was reacting to the allegation that he was trying to extort money from the senator and threatening to destroy his image.

    While describing the allegation as false and baseless, he said the dispute between them was over the refusal of the senator to settle his professional fee.

    TheNewsGuru.com recalls that Senator Uba had in a petition published in the media on April 11 accused Uwaje of attempting to extort money from him, stressing that the lawyer had threatened to destroy his reputation.

    While addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Uwaje said his dispute with the Senator began after he helped the senator lift a travel ban against him by the United Kingdom.

    Uwaje said he also settled all cases of fraud leveled against Uba in the United States, but later discovered that the senator’s secondary school leaving certificates had been forged.

    He told reporters in Abuja, “Sometimes in 2012, I met with Senator Andy Uba who briefed me that he had issues with the UK authorities because he was banned in 2008 from entering the United Kingdom, and being a British citizen and a private investigator, he wanted me to lift the exclusion ban on him from entering the UK.

    “I met with him at his Asokoro residence where he gave me the power of attorney duly signed by him, both of us appended our signatures. It was authorising me to work on his behalf and he was going to return the expenses back to me that will assist in lifting the ban on him.

    “He also had an arrest warrant against him in the State of Los Angeles, he also gave me a power of attorney in 2015 signed by Senator Andy Uba to lift the arrest warrant against him.

    “After everything, I sought for my professional fees and sent it to him. It kept lingering, he refused to pay. So, at the end of the day, I filed a court process against him, seeking for payment of my professional fees. The amount in question is £1.8 million.

    “In the Vanguard of yesterday, Andy Uba said I was trying to blackmail him to extort money from him and I want to put the records straight about my dealings with Senator Emmanuel Andy Uba.

    “We started from 2016, we have been in court since 2016, so I don’t see the reason he is alluding to blackmail, because we are in court, he was served through the Clerk of the National Assembly. I don’t understand how a case in court is blackmail.”

    The lawyer said he found out about Uba’s alleged false declaration of asset after studying the documents given to him by the senator and investigating it.

    “He presented a lot of documents to be presented to the UK authorities, some forged documents, WAEC certificate and others, which were part of the documents filed in court.

    “WAEC confirmed that the certificate Nnamdi Uba is parading is a fake document and I expect the authorities to look into this vehemently because forgery in the National Assembly is alarming and I feel the media is crucial to straightening issues in Nigeria.

    “I have received several threat phone calls from the UK, different phone calls from people claiming to be his agents threatening my life.”