Anambra Central: Umeh blames Obi for stalemate in senatorial re-run

The immediate past national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the party’s candidate in the Anambra Central senatorial re-run election, Chief Victor Umeh, has blamed the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, for the lingering impasse.

Speaking with newsmen in Onitsha, Chief Umeh called on the people of the zone to hold the former governor responsible for non-representation of the zone in the Senate, adding that Obi procured a court order that stalled the election, which he had no business contesting for.

Umeh said: “I will blame Mr. Peter Obi for procuring the court order that stalled the election. The reason is that he was not part of the election at all; the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was right in excluding Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the election because the Court of Appeal disqualified its candidate.
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“There is no way Mr. Obi should have joined the Senatorial race in 20I6; a race that started in 20I4. All of us started the race in 20I4, went through the processes of nomination, went to the election proper and the election was nullified.

“The law has been settled long ago by the Supreme Court that the only people that participated in the nullified election who are qualified, will proceed to the repeat election.”

He said it was painful that his people in Anambra Central were losing representation, caused by an ‘intruder,’ who was now delaying the election that would have held on March 5, by procuring an order four days to the election.