By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – A leading pressure group under the auspices “APC Patriots, Anambra” has boasted that the All Progressives Congress is in a smooth cruise to victory in the state considering the incurable crisis and legal battles rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) respectively, ahead of the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election in the state.
The Group therefore charged aspirants of the party to close ranks in order for the party to win the election.
The APC Patriots, Anambra made the call in a statement signed by its Spokesman, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene made available to Precise Post in Abuja.
According to the statement, “Given the procedural imperfections that attended APGA’s screening process, leading to the unfazed disqualification of otherwise qualified aspirants, and the musical chairs trailing the party’s national chairmanship, APGA’s participation in this year’s Anambra governorship election remains a matter of conjecture.
“In fact, the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to decline the party’s list of delegates is a major development which we have since taken judicial notice of,” the group said.
“For the PDP, the multiplicity of court injunctions and rulings emerging from the camps of disparate godfathers, and unending disputations over which delegates’ list to work with, has cast the party in legal entanglement that can only be resolved way after the November 6 election.
“We, therefore, commend our party’s aspirants for engaging in electioneering devoid of calumny and underhand tactics, and urge them to sustain such exemplary conduct.”
Precise Post recalls that “The APC Patriots, Anambra” steering committee consists of the party’s deputy governorship candidate in the 2017 gubernatorial election in the state, Dozie Ikedife, as Coordinator, and parades three former House of Representatives members, Honourables Emeke Nwogbo, Chizor Obidigwe and Afam Ogene. Others are: former National Assembly aspirants in 2019, Mike Mbanefo, Ike Chidolue, Chidi Ogbaji; the party’s zonal youth leader, Olisaemeka Onyeka. Barrister Chuks Chinwuba, a renowned political strategist. This group has been in the forefront of ensuring victory for the APC in this year’s Anambra gubernatorial election.
Part of it’s strategies included the April 27, 2021 Interactive Session which it convoked at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The event was attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, all the aspirants, ministers, and leading political figures from the South east, including former Senate President, Ken Nnamani.
At that epochal event, the aspirants had pledged to go about seeking the party’s ticket in an atmosphere of camaraderie – a pledge, which the APC Patriots noted they have sustained till date.
