By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming Anambra gubernatorial race, Senator Andy Uba, has asked his fellow contestant in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Alliance) counterpart, Professor Charles Soludo, to focus on developing strategies to keep the party afloat post November elections as political parties do not just exist to be used as tools to get to power.
Sen. Uba was reacting to claims by Soludo, who, on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, told members of his party that “losing the election would be the end of APGA.”
He said: “We cannot afford to lose this election because if we lose this election, it will be the end of APGA. We need to work together and make sure we win this election (in order) to survive and carry on the legacy of the party.”
The APGA flag bearer disclosed this on a day three local government chairmen and 75 ward chairmen of APGA – including that of Governor Willie Obiano – defected to the APC
In a press release signed by Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, Director, Media and Publicity, Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation (SAUGCO), Uba enjoined Soludo to begin tinkering with ways to rejuvenate APGA to ensure its survival as a political party.
“While contesting and winning elections are legitimate aspirations of both political parties and their candidates, they do not solely define a political party.
“So, for the APGA candidate to wish his party to go into extinction, in the likely outcome of a loss in the forthcoming election, clearly shows that he is only in the race to win, and not to help nurture the country’s political culture,” Hon. Ogene said.