15 political parties endorse Andy Uba as consensus candidate for Anambra guber

The Mega Coalition, an alliance of 15 registered political parties, said it had endorsed Sen. Andy Uba as its candidate for the Nov. 18 governorship election in Anambra State.

The Chancellor of the coalition, Chief Perry Opara, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

 Uba is currently the Senator representing Anambra South in the red chamber.

Opara said that Uba emerged from a consensus, and that the decision was arrived at after several meetings by the National Chairmen of participating parties in the coalition.

According to him, after rigorous scrutiny of the numerous candidates for the elective position, Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came top as the best aspirant for the top job.

Opara said that although the APC was not a very popular party in the South-East, it paraded the best and most experienced aspirants in the race.

“There are also other qualified aspirants like Chief George Mughalu, Dr Chike Obidigbo, Dr Obinna Uzor, Mr Tony Nwoye, Mr Barth Nwibe and Dr Obigboh of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“These aspirants also have capacity to win the race, but among them all, Sen. Andy Uba tops the pack.’’

The chancellor said that the coalition’s consideration was not on party platform but on individual that had the capacity to win the state election.

He added that Mega Coalition was not in enmity with APC, PDP or any other party as its consideration was on contesting candidates.