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…January 13 date sacrosanct – Umeh

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in the January 13, 2018 Anambra Central Senatorial District re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh, has expressed…

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in the January 13, 2018 Anambra Central Senatorial District re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh, has expressed optimism over the conduct of the exercise.

Umeh said nothing would prevent the election from holding on the date already fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Speaking during a radio programme at Obosi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, he described as a joke, the claim by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be sworn-in as the senator for Anambra Central.

Dr Obiora Okonkwo had, through his lawyers, asked INEC to issue him with the certificate of return after forwarding the judgement of a Federal High Court ordering that he be sworn in as the senator representing Central Senatorial District to the electoral body.

He expressed hope that the commission would “allow reason to prevail.”

But Umeh, in his reaction, explained that the Court of Appeal judgement of December 17, 2015 had effectively nullified the result of the March 2015 Anambra Central Senatorial District election.

“The claim by the PDP chieftain is a nullity and cannot be enforced. Besides, the Nigerian constitution and the Electoral Act have guaranteed the January 13, 2018 date already fixed by INEC for the Anambra Central Senatorial District re-run election,” he also said.

Umeh, the immediate past APGA national chairman, called on the electorate in the senatorial district to brace up for the re-run poll and exercise their franchise for effective representation at the Senate.

 

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