This followed the reversal of the adoption of Ngige as the candidate for the governorship election in November 16, 2013 by the APC’s national leadership.
Yesterday’s primaries held at 326 wards with members of the party voting without delegates.
Ezeemo accused Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha and Ngige of seeking to scheme him out. He also said Ngige’s camp rigged the primaries and perpetrated violence.
But Ngige dismissed the allegations, saying Ezeemo was a political neophyte. Ngige’s camp also accused Ezeemo’s supporters of rigging the primaries.
Also, the Maxi Okwu faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday made good its promise of fielding a governorship candidate for the November 16, 2013 poll in Anambra State by choosing frontline industrialist, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, as its standard bearer at the primary election held in Awka.
He was selected through acclamation by 450 delegates.
Chairman of the Screening Committee, Mr. Chris Eze, declared that at last the party had come out with a most qualified candidate, stressing that having crisscrossed the length and breadth of the state campaigning for votes, Obidigbo was in a better position to win the election.
A renowned technocrat and former Executive Director (Business Banking) at Fidelity Bank, Chief Willie Obiano, had earlier been nominated as the party’s candidate by the Victor Umeh faction.
Also, Chief Udo Udeogaranya has emerged as the gubernatorial candidate of African Peoples Alliance (APA).
In a statement, he said: “Finally, I was nominated and voted in unopposed by the party delegates from all the wards on Saturday, 31st August 2013, at the party’s special congress conducted in Awka by APA national office, led by the national secretary of the party in the person of Alhaji Samaila Mohammed Tanko, monitored by three INEC officials from Abuja.”
Meanwhile, indigenes of Anambra State in Lagos and the city of Houston, Texas in the United States have praised Obiano’s emergence as the APGA candidate.
Speaking at a recent function in Lagos, Emeka Obiora, a medical doctor from Ogbunike in Anambra State described Obiano’s emergence as “a break from the past.”
According to him, “Obiano has a verifiable track record and a career profile. We have great expectations of him.”
Francis Igboanugo, a Lagos-based lawyer said: “Obiano’s profile marks him out as a natural successor to Governor Peter Obi. After eight eventful years of Obi’s leadership, Anambra State cannot afford to end up in the hands of traders and hardcore politicians again. That would be a return to the enemies of the state.”
Mrs. Ada Odinukwe, an international businesswoman, remarked: “I have always feared the worst. I have wondered how we would be able to sustain and build upon Obi’s many achievements after his exit. However, with the emergence of Chief Willie Obiano as the APGA candidate, I am relieved to see that may be, for the first time, Nigerians are taking succession planning seriously.”
Lawrence Oguejiofor, a Nigerian engineer who lives in Houston, described Obiano’s victory at the primaries as an answered prayer of sorts to Anambra indigenes there who had hoped that the candidate who owns a house in the city would emerge victorious in the primaries.
According to him, it is just a matter of time before highly credible and globally reputed Nigerians begin to fully participate in national politics and the overall search for materials and solutions to Nigeria’s endless leadership challenges.
“We all have an obligation to retrieve Nigeria from the years of the locust and restore it to its erstwhile position as the moral force of the African continent,” he further observed.
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