By Cajetan Mmuta
The National Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has received the reports and recommendations of the Anambra governorship appeal committee which has the Gombe state governor, Inuwa Yahaya as chairman.

The appeal committee, it was learned, had upheld the candidacy of Senator Andy Uba and also dismissed all the petitions challenging his emergence.

The governorship primary of the APC was held on the 26th of June in the state and it produces Senator Uba as winner and candidate.

About 13 out of 14 Governorship aspirants rejected the outcome and challenged Ubah’s emergence.

A source close to the party who pleaded that his name should not be mentioned said the governor Yahaya’s appeal committee upheld the Anambra governorship primary election which produced Andy Uba as the party’s candidate.

The source said, “I can tell you authoritatively that Senator Andy Uba remains our governorship candidate in Anambra. The Appeal Committee has dismissed the petitions submitted against Uba’s candidacy.

“Meanwhile,all the aggrieved aspirants are scheduled to meet with Mr. President within the week. The presidency wants to see how these governorship aspirants could be persuaded to drop their grievances, that I know,” the competent source revealed.

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The Yobe state governor Mai Mala Buni, represented by the national secretary Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, had said that the caretaker committee would look critically with objectivity into the report.

Akpanudoedehe said: “We are a progressive party and the progressive parties are very straightforward and we are honest in our dealings.

“I want to assure you that the Caretaker Committee Chairman will look critically with objectivity to this report. Even though, I don’t know what is contained in this (report), at the end of the day, the party supremacy and the party direction will be guided by what you have done,” he said.