By Cajetan Mmuta
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra state has faulted the threat by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 6, 2021 Governorship election in the state Senator Andy Uba to go to challenge the outcome of the poll which was won by Professor Charles Sokudo
The ruling party said Senator Uba’s position shows disrespect to President Muhammadu Buhari who had since congratulated Prof. Soludo for emerging victorious at the end of the contest.
It would be recalled that Senator Andy Uba had shortly after INEC declared Soludo as the winner of the election told his supporters to be calm, point out that having studied the election, he was confident he could recover ‘his stolen mandate through the court’.
But APGA in quick reaction through the Director of Media and Publicity of the party’s campaign council and Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba said Senator Uba had no mandate to recover.
Adinuba in a statement on Tuesday said Uba who came a distant third was not even the candidate of the party as he was alleged imposed.
He said that after President Buhari had congratulated Soludo, it would amount to disrespect for him (President) to still be talking about going to court.
The statement by Adinuba read: “The Anambra people are satisfied that the party which took second in the election has congratulated the winner, just as the APC which came third.”
“President Buhari says he is looking forward to working closely with Professor Soludo, a former Central Bank governor and a member of Buhari’s Committee of Economic Advisers, for the development of not just Anambra State but the Southeast.”
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According to him, “It is, indeed, a mark of gross indiscipline that after President Buhari, the APC leader, has congratulated Professor Soludo on his massive victory in 19 out of the 21 local government areas in Anambra State, Uba, who could not win in even one local government, is threatening the Anambra people with fire and brimstone as well as the so-called Imo Formula which, in his fanciful world, could make a person who took a very pathetic third position occupy Anambra Government House.”
The governor’s aide however urged the Anambra people and all Nigerians to disregard the threat from Uba and his supporters, saying all local and international observers have confirmed that the November 6 election was free, fair and transparent.
“Local and international journalists who covered the historic election are of the same view. The massive rejoicing in Anambra State and beyond over the outcome shows the profound legitimacy of INEC’s declaration of Professor Soludo as the winner of the November 6 vote. It is time to ignore Uba, a bad loser who was never the APC candidate in the first place,” he stated.
