Save Anambra Group urges Ngige’s cousin not to run with Andy Uba

Sun, Jul 25, 2021

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SAVE Anambra State Group, SASG, a new pressure group, has appealed to Emeka Okafor, a first cousin of Chris Ngige, labour and productivity minister, not to accept the reported offer of being the running mate of Senator Andy Uba, the controversial All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the November 6, gubernatorial election in the state.

Julius Enweugwu, SASG president, and Matthew Ifeanyi, secretary, told reporters in Awka on Sunday, that if Okafor becomes “Uba’s deputy, it will negate all the Ngige administration in Anambra State from 2003 to 2006 stood for in its fight against godfatherism, buccaneering, election rigging, squandering of riches and political violence on a grand scale”.

Okafor, according to the pressure group, “belonged to the sanctum sanctorum, or holy of holies, in the Ngige administration which told all Nigerians that Andy Uba, then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s most powerful aide, was responsible for the calamities which our state was experiencing like the burning of the Government House, the Governor’s Lodge, the state legislature, the Anambra Broadcasting Service and the Judicial Complex and the abduction of Governor Ngige without the police arresting the culprits”.

The state government stated that the calamities were visited upon the state because of Governor Ngige’s refusal to sign a billion naira (N2bn) to Andy Uba’s younger brother,  Chris Uba and his group who claimed to be the godfathers of Anambra politics.

Enweugwu noted that Ngige has been the most consistent critic of the APC congress of June 26, which saw Uba emerge the gubernatorial candidate as he alleges that no congress took place in each of the 21 local government areas in the state.

Thirteen of the 14 gubernatorial aspirants corroborate Ngige’s criticism, with George Moghalu, the managing director of the Nigerian Inland National Waterways Authority, going to court to disqualify Uba as the APC candidate on the ground that he won no election.

– July 25, 2021 @ 6:27 GMT |