There was drama at the convention of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) as Mary Ekpere-Eta, an aspirant for the office of national woman
leader of the party, refused to withdraw from contesting.
Ekpere-Eta, a former director-general of the National Centre
for Women Development (NCWD), announced her decision in the early hours of
Sunday during the ongoing APC convention in Abuja.
According to an ‘endorsement list’ of consensus candidates
released earlier on Saturday, Betta Edu was adopted for the office of national
woman leader.
The adoption of Edu comes despite the controversy over
whether she resigned her position as Cross River commissioner for health before
seeking to contest as national woman leader.
Edu had, however, said she resigned as commissioner “weeks
ago”.
At the convention which started on Saturday and continued
into Sunday, aspirants took turns to announce their intentions to withdraw from
contesting different positions.
While that was going on, Alphonsus Eba, APC chairman in
Cross River, climbed the stage and announced that Ekpere-Eta had withdrawn from
the contest.
But Ekpere-Eta appeared on the stage immediately afterwards
and insisted that she was still in the race.
“I will never and cannot withdraw from the race,” she said.
See video below.
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