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S’Court: Unite Behind Emenike, Abia APC Urges Ogah. Others

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to a former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah, as well as other party stakeholders in Abia State, to sheathe their swords and unite behind the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Ikechi Emenike, to win the forthcoming election following the supreme court ruling on the crisis. 

This was even as the Abia APC governorship candidate, Emenike, extended an olive branch to his opponents after going through 24 cases at the High Courts, nine cases at Appeal Courts, and five cases at the Supreme Court which were consolidated into one.

The Eastern Updates recalls that the Supreme Court had on Thursday put a final stop to several litigations in Abia APC when a five-member panel of the apex court Justices affirmed Emenike’s candidacy in a unanimous judgement delivered on five consolidated appeals.

Ogah and others had gone to court to challenge the candidacy of Emenike for the governorship polls.

Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, APC National Welfare Secretary, Sir Friday Nwosu, appealed to Ogah to put the past behind him.

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He said: ‘This morning, I have written to my brother and young friend Uche Ogah. You have tried, taking your matter to the highest level, to the highest court of the land and the highest court of the land have turned against you.

‘Please, sheathe your sword and come with your supporters and let us support our candidate to win. Nobody will lose. Governorship is not one man thing and the party is also in control. If all of us go and work together, we will win.

‘I am appealing to my brother, Uche Ogah please don’t be further offended, cool down your temper. Let us work together and we will win. I am not appealing to him alone, the calibre of people appointed by the APC-led federal government in my state is enough to win the governorship race,’ Nwosu said.

He also called on the Senate Chief Whip and former governor of Abia, Senator Orji Kalu, whose younger brother was using his structures to run for the state’s governorship election on the platform of another party, to mobilise support for the APC standard bearer.

Nwosu added: ‘In my state we have a federal commissioner Pencom, representing South-east, he is in our party. We have a federal commissioner with Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) from my state. We have the executive secretary of the National Agricultural Land Development Agency from my state, all appointed by this government.

‘We also have Uche Ogah who just resigned as a minister and my humble self in that state. And I am telling you with our supporters, all of us coming together to support Ikechi Emenike, we will win that governorship race. I am not here to say that High Chief Ikechi Emenike is a perfect man, I am not saying so. I am not perfect myself. I may not be good but I am reasonable.

‘What we are saying is that the party in its own wisdom has nominated a candidate. I am appealing to my brother, to people of good will to help us appeal to these people, particularly Uche Ogah who went to court and lost, losing today is not losing forever. I am calling on my brothers to come let us go and effect the change our people are yearning for. That is why I called you this morning to address you.

‘Not only this, I will go to them, person to person as I have been going. I also include His Excellency Uzor Kalu that we should come and support our party. Like His Excellency, the Senator, his younger brother is running for governor under a different party and he is using the Senator’s and former governor’s structure to run in his different party.

‘Is as if my state is cursed and it bleeds my heart that is why I have called to plead with you, say it where it should be heard. And what is making me cry is that these people with this careless attitude are enjoying the appointment and patronage of the federal government of APC and it is not fair.’

But the APC governorship hopeful has decided to be magnanimous in victory by appealing to all those that fought legal battles with him to sheathe their swords and join hands with him to rescue and develop Abia.

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