Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State chapter, Thursday, took a protest to the Enugu office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, demanding postponement of the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State.<\/p>\n
The party members were led by the State Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST reports that this came as an Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal earlier in the day reinstated Senator Ayogu Eze as the party\u2019s governorship candidate.<\/p>\n
An Abuja Federal High Court had sacked Ayogu and ordered the INEC to recognize Barr. George Ogara. However, in a judgement today, the Appellate Court said Senator Eze remained the party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n
Following the development, the party members demanded a postponement of the exercise to enable them carry out campaign across the State.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have written the INEC; we are demanding that they should postpone the exercise. They should push it forward to enable us carry out our campaign,\u201d Nwoye said.<\/p>\n
Earlier Senator Eze had boasted that with the Court verdict, the coast was clear for him.<\/p>\n
He said nobody would be able to stop his political movement, which he described as a tornado.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to assure you that our spirit is not down. This tornado is on the move,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
However, reacting, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, described APC claims as spurious and laughable.<\/p>\n
Director of communications of the PDP campaign organization, Barr. Nana Ogbodo told DAILY POST that the APC never campaigned before now.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cgiven the spate of woeful performances by some key members of the APC in the state during the last Presidential\/National Assembly elections, whereof they all lost at their various polling booths, it\u2019s perhaps not unexpected that they would seek to rationalize the vacuity of their hitherto boastful posturings. It\u2019s also possible that they are just intent on engaging in some farcical theatrics in order to corner off some campaign funds from Abuja.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet it\u2019s not lost on us that the last refuge of a scoundrel is often to assume that his enemies are the enemies of God! For a party which governorship candidate could not even as much as win his ward during the last Presidential\/national assembly elections, it\u2019s indeed disingenuous to seek a postponement of the election at this hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecall that before now, instead of engaging in campaigns, the APC leadership in the state had openly boasted that it would use \u2018federal might\u2019 to win the gubernatorial elections. It is therefore curious that the same party has now turned round to seek a scapegoat by spuriously accusing INEC, CBN and security agencies of engaging in the same game they are obsessed of.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hereby urge the good people of our dear state to ignore this infantile antics of some disembelling demagogues and troop out enmasse to perform once again their civic duty come Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State chapter, Thursday, took a protest to the Enugu office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, demanding postponement of the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State. The party members were led by the State Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye. DAILY POST reports that this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[268,347,34,251,197],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-2019-election","tag-abuja","tag-apc","tag-inec","tag-states"],"yoast_head":"\n