Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the last
Anambra State governorship election, Senator Andy Uba, has warned his opponents
to stop Demonizing him over his plan to challenge the outcome of the election
in court.
Uba said he decided to choose a civil means to recover his
mandate, while warning the victorious All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to
rather prepare to meet him in court, instead of condemning his decision.
Uba disclosed this in a press statement by the director of
media and publicity of his campaign organisation, Afam Ogene, made available in Awka.
“We wondered why several days after the polls, Uba’s
opponents, especially members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA,
still find it fashionable to conjure all manner of falsehood in his name.
“The elections have come and gone and we are in the process
of interrogating the sanctity of its outcome. But instead of gearing up for the
expected judicial battle ahead, APGA as a party and its leaders are busy
trolling my person, in the mistaken belief that their underhand tactics would
make me back out of my chosen course of action.
“I have only decided to take a civilised course of action,
which is a recourse to the judiciary in the face of daunting illegalities that
trailed the conduct of the elections. How this is so discomfiting to some,
leading to the sponsorship of several false stories about my person, beats the
imagination of all reasonable members of society.”
Ogene said the APGA-led government has been spending a lot
from Anambra coffers to jump from one media house to another in defence of a
mandate they knew they never won.
“While leading members of APGA and their supporters
gallivanting from one television station to another spending resources
belonging to our state in undisguised attempts at demonizing Senator Uba, the
propaganda wing of the party does the same by busying itself churning out one
badly cooked story after another.
“In one of such fairy tales, a nondescript online rendezvous
claimed that Senator Uba was lamenting that Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state
was no longer picking his calls. Nothing else could be farther than the truth,
as it is public knowledge that as Chairman of the APC National Campaign
Council, Senator Uba owes the Imo State Governor a huge debt of gratitude for
his financial and leadership roles in the electioneering process.
“Indeed, we regard this foolish tale as part of a deliberate
ploy by APGA to get as many APC chieftains as possible at odds with Senator
Uba. The first, we recall, was the infantile story of dragging the Anambra
State Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke, before an imaginary deity and then an
attempt at casting aspersions on the image of Distinguished Senator Stella
Oduah, for the simple reason that she decided to pitch her tent with us in the
APC.
“Although we are quite aware that several of such devious
propaganda materials have been made ready for dissemination, we urge discerning
members of the public to disregard same whenever they summon the courage to
push them out – believing, as we do, that in the final analysis, justice shall
be last served,” he said.
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