Issues closed over Anambra gov’ship – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State said yesterday that there are no more contentious issues over the candidature of Tony Nwoye, who won the party’s primary earlier this month.
The party had also set up a committee with a mandate of reconciling aggrieved members of the party who expressed disagreement over the outcome of the primary election and all the interventions that followed which failed to upturn the election.
The reconciliation move, Daily Trust learnt, was coming on the heels of disenchantment and threats of anti-party activities over the final endorsement of Nwoye as the party’s governorship candidate.
Nwoye had defeated other aspirants such as Senator Andy Uba, Engr. Barth Nwibe, George Muoghalu, Patrick Nwike, among others in a keenly contested party primary.
Inaugurating the committee at the party’s secretariat in Awka, the state chairman of the party, Barrister Emeka Ibeh, noted that the move was intended to carry everybody along.
“The mandate of the committee is to reach out to aggrieved aspirants who may have natural misgivings on the outcome of the primary election which threw up Nwoye as the candidate for the November 18, 2017 election,” he said. Ibe, who said there was no crisis in the party, expressed optimism that APC would win the forthcoming election.
The committee, headed by Nwoye’s running mate, Dozie Ikedife Jnr., had Tony One-Week Muonagor (secretary), Chidi Ebede, Johnbosco Onunkwo, George Ozodinobi, Tony Akaenyi, Chibuzor Obiakor, Chief Uzoma Onwuachu, and Osy Ezenwa, as members.
Other members of the committee included Barrister Hyacinth Nweke, Hon. Celestine Ughamadu, Calista Nwachukwu, Ike Ekwensi and Alex Ekemezie.