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Anambra Guber Poll: Nobody can stop APC from winning, says Senator Oduah

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SENATOR STELLA ODUAH

 

Senator Stella Oduah (Anambra North) has said no person or political party can stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from winning the November 6 governorship election.

She promised to deliver the zone to APC and the governorship candidate, Senator Andy Uba during the election.

The Senator spoke during the APC stakeholders meeting in Awka, the state capital.

She called all the leaders and aggrieved persons to close ranks for the party’s victory.

According to her: “We are committed to deploying everything in our arsenal to ensure victory for the APC in Anambra North come November 6(2021) and this is not a contest I take lightly, as I have immense respect and confidence in the ability of Senator Andy Uba to turn, and position, Anambra to a state every Anambrarian can be proud of.

“That being said, I am making a personal commitment to ensure victory for our great party and the work has already begun, in the way and manner our various support groups, NGOs and teeming supporters spread across the length and breadth of Anambra North have already been deployed in a massive polling unit to polling unit campaign drive.”

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Oduah, who was represented by Princess Nwaka Ononuju, said they were not leaving anything to chances in delivering Uba at the poll.

Oduah, famed for her aggressive Neighbour to Neighbour campaign strategy which aided President Goodluck Jonathan to power in 2011, described her defection to the APC “as a well thought out move, which had the best interests of our dear state as paramount.

” For far too long, Anambra has been unfortunate to have political parties at the helm of its affairs that are alien to governments at the centre, which invariably meant that the dividends of democracy that should accrue to it, have not really trickled down as they should.

“We have been too disconnected from the centre, to the point where everything we ever got were either through the personal efforts of individuals like Senator Andy Uba, our party candidate, or an almost slavish arrangement that meant we had to go cap in hand(begging).”

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She urged aggrieved members of the party to close ranks saying “especially at this material time our state is experiencing an existential threat that would require the input of all well-meaning Anambrarians to save it from the quagmire it currently finds itself in.

“Come November 6, 2021, the APC shall take centre stage in Agu Awka.”

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NLC kicks against Abure’s re-election as LP chairman, says ‘it’s an illegality’

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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), on Wedenesday, said Julius Abure’s re-election as chairman of the Labour Party (LP) is “an illegality”.

Abure was re-elected LP chairman on Wednesday at the party’s national convention which was held in Nnewi, Anambra state.

Ikechukwu Emetu, deputy governor of Abia state and chairman of the convention, declared Abure as the winner.

 

The convention was attended by party chairmen from the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT), members of states and national assemblies as well as representatives from LGAs.

 

The re-election of Abure came a week after members of the NLC picketed the LP secretariat in Abuja.

 

The protesting NLC members demanded the postponement of the party’s national convention.

 

The labour body accused Abure of “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC”, and of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.

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Reacting to Abure’s re-election, Benson Upah, spokesperson of the NLC, said “the whole exercise was a charade”.

 

“It is an illegality, a nullity. The whole exercise was a charade! Nothing can legitimise such brazen impunity,” The Punch quoted Upah as saying.

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LP re-elects Abure as national chairman amid NLC opposition

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Julius Abure has been re-elected as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP).

 

Abure was re-elected on Wednesday at the party’s national convention held in Nnewi, Anambra state.

 

Ikechukwu Emetu, deputy governor of Abia state and chairman of the convention, declared Abure as the winner.

 

The convention was attended by party chairmen from the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT), members of states and national assemblies as well as representatives from LGAs.

 

The re-election of Abure came a week after members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) pocketed the LP secretariat in Abuja.

 

The protesting NLC members demanded the postponement of the party’s national convention.

 

The labour body accused Abure of “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC”, and of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.

 

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The election of a new chairman to elect a new chairman was part of the convention’s agenda.

 

Others are the amendment of the party’s constitution and the dissolution of the national working committee (NWC).

 

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APC constitutes nine-man committee for Ondo governorship primary

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The National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress has set up a nine-man committee to oversee the primary election for Ondo governorship aspirants.

 

This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka.

 

The development comes barely a day after 15 members of the Ondo State House of Assembly, including the Speaker, Olamide Oladiji, endorsed the governor of the state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to clinch the party ticket and win the November 2024 governorship election.

 

The APC statement partly read, “By a resolution adopted at its 144th meeting held on March 6, 2024, the National Working Committee of our great party constituted a governorship primary election committee of its members for the smooth running of election processes in Ondo State.”

 

However, the primary election committee members comprised only the APC NWC members.

 

They include Emma Eneukwu (Chairman), Festus Fuanter, Victor Giadom, Prof. Abdulkarim Kana, Sulaiman M. Argungu, Dr. Mary Alile Idele, Aare Durotolu Bankole, Nze Chidi Duru and Morka.

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