….thanks APC members, campaign team
By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – Following preliminary examination of the November 6, 2021, Anambra gubernatorial election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Andy Uba, has declared his intention to challenge the declaration of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Prof. Charles Soludo, as the winner of the election.
Members of the Anambra State chapter of the APC on Saturday, November 13, 2021, reviewed the outcome of the November 6, 2021 Anambra governorship election, and resolved that there were enough grounds to judicially interrogate the outcome.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity, Sen. Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation (SAUGCO), Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, on Sunday, November 14, 2021.
He said the Party’s candidate in the election, Senator Andy Uba, and the top echelon of the party in the state led by the State Chairman, Chief Basil Ejidike, after an internal debriefing of the party and campaign organisation, discovered that besides having enough grounds to challenge the declaration of Professor Charles Soludo as governor-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the entire election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the rules governing such exercise.
According to the SAUGCO Spokesman, Senator Uba had, at the meeting with the party and campaign organisation yesterday at Marble Arch Hotel, Awka, expressed profound gratitude to members of the party, the campaign team and Ndi Anambra, pointing out that though he never takes politics or quest for political office as ‘a do or die’ venture, he would, nonetheless, always follow the dictates of the law in seeking redress.
He quoted him as saying: “I will start by thanking God who kept us all alive throughout the campaign and the election.
Let me once again thank everyone that contributed to this election in one way or the other. Your efforts was not in doubt and I thank you all.”
Sen. Uba told the gathering that preliminary investigations showed sufficient grounds for him and the party to challenge the declaration of the APGA candidate, Soludo, as winner of the election by
INEC and that the ideal thing to do in the face of such discovery, is to approach the tribunal for redress.
“We will be heading to court with the discoveries we have, which shows that the declaration of Soludo as the governor-elect is faulty.
“As governor, I was removed after 17 days of been sworn in by the Surpreme Court of Nigeria and I did not die. So, the current development won’t hurt me. Power belongs to God and Him alone determines who he will entrust it to. This, I can assure you,” he said.
The statement added that the Anambra State APC, represented by the state chairman, Ejidike, said the decision to seek judicial redress is, perhaps, the surest way to ensure that those who engineered the electoral heist of November 6, 2021 do not enjoy the fruits of their perfidy.
In Ejidike’s words: “Ndi Anambra and the world at large would bear testimony to the fact that, on the eve of the election, the outgoing Governor Willy Obiano administration had, through it’s Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba, told everyone that the APC had written results of 10 Local Government Areas.
“Unknown to us, however, that false alarm was aimed at deflecting attention from the manipulation of the BVAS machine by APGA and a top official of INEC – a fact which a national newspaper had weeks earlier drawn attention to.
“We are heading to Court. APGA and INEC are aware that they compromised during the election and we have evidences to challenge INEC’s declaration in the Court of law.”
The meeting was attended by several leaders of the party in the state, National Assembly, State Assembly and other members of the party.