By Cajetan Mmuta
Members of the Progressive Media Team of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra state on Wednesday called on the party leadership to sanction Sen. Andy Uba and Ogun state Governor Dapo Abiodun over their role in the recently conducted governorship primary of the party, describing the exercise as a charade.

The Governor Abiodun-led Panel had declared Senator Uba as the winner of the Governorship primary with a total of 230,201 votes to defeat thirteen other aspirants.

But the group, at a press conference in Awka the state capital, insisted there was no primary election in the state.

They regretted that Dapo Abiodun’s action was a disregard to the leader of the party, Sen. Chris Ngige, and other long committed members of our party in the state.

Spokesperson of the group, Hon. Jude Oruola said the party was still waiting for the electoral committee to carry out its assignment for the party in the state.

He said, “The Progressive Media Team of All progressive Congress which is the umbrella body of all the Media Team of over Nine Governorship Aspirants of our great Party for Anambra 2021 APC Governorship Primary election who came together to address the injustices in the party as it concerns the purported primary election of the party in the state on 26th June 2021.

“We want to state it categorically clear that no primary election was held anywhere in the state and the purported declaration of anybody by Governor Dapo Abiodun led APC Primary election committee in the state only exists in the imagination of the committee and their collaborators in the state.

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“The members of our great party across the 326 political wards in the state are still waiting for the electoral committee since 26th June 2021 to carry out their assignment for the party in the state.”

While explaining that the briefing was to debunk various press conferences being championed by certain ‘unscrupulous’ elements in the party parading themselves as patriots or media frontiers, Oruola stressed that such persons have no moral standing, integrity, and character in the party.

“We challenge all these elements that are out there to ridicule our party and their members to shows the world the evidence of where they were on the line at their various wards voting for the preferred choice of Aspirants on that day.

“We want to state it here that what Governor Dapo Abiodun did in Anambra state and the progressive family of APC in the state is the most unbelievable show of disregard to the Leader of our great party, Senator Chris Ngige, and long committed members of our party in the state.

“We want to know where Governor Dapo Abiodun got all the figures he announced to the world. This is pure madness and we wonder how such a man can involve himself in this kind of electoral fraud and heist in the history of Nigeria.

“We are really disappointed with this Governor and such character has no place in the progressive party like All Progressive Congress.

“The Governor has proven his untrustworthiness and lacking the character and integrity to be called a progressive and the nitty-gritty for future national assignment and has dented his personality with this charade.

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“We want the general public, Mr. President and the National Working Committee of our great party to know that the figures allocated to various Aspirants by Governor Dapo Abiodun do not owe to the participation of Anambra APC members in any primary because no primary election was held anywhere in the 326 wards.

“This is our position, which has been re-affirmed by the generality of the party leaders, Elders of our Party, Local Government Chairmen of our Party who are the custodian of the party at various Local Government.

“We call on the party to sanction Senator Andy Uba and Governor Dapo Abiodun who were arrowheads behind this charade. There must be consequences for people’s actions,” he added.