Some candidates and parties taking part in the governorship election holding in 19 days time have vowed to shame critics who deride Anambra as the hot-bed of vote rigging in Nigeria by supporting and upholding free and fair election. They spoke at the sensitisation workshop for political parties and stakeholders organised by the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, in Awka, the Anambra State capital. They proffered suggestions on how to make the polls violence-free and credible and promised to observe the code of conduct jointly fashioned by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC. Among those who promised to uphold the rules of the game include National Chairman of the All Progressives Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh; Action Alliance, AA, Chairman, Chief Tunde Salami; Citizens Popular Party, CPP, Chairman, Chief Sam Eke; Kowa Party Chairman, Alhaji Umaru Mustapha; National Conscience Party, NCP, Chairman, Dr Yunusa Tanko; Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, Secretary, Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima and Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Secretary, Hon Peter Ameh among others. Candidates who bought into the non-violence and credible election deal are Willie Obiano, APGA, Okeke Chika Jerry, AA, Chukwuemeka Nwankwo, ACCORD, Ifeatu Ekelem, Advanced Congress of Democrats, ACD, Mr. Tony Anene, ACPN, Mr. Aaron Igweze, Alliance for Democracy, AD, Chief Anayo Arinze African Democratic Congress, ADC, who was represented by Pastor Don Chijioke, Senator Chris Ngige All Peoples Congress, APC, who was represented by Ben Oranusi and Austin Nwangwu , CPP. Others include Godwin Ezeemo, PPA, Ifeanyi Ubah, Labour Party, LP, who was represented by his running mate, Basil Onyeachonam and Lady Obiageli Ezema, Social Democratic Party, SDP, Pastor Simon Okafor (Mega Progressive Peoples Party, MPPP. The vow came after Major Gen. Ike Nwachukwu, who chaired the event, urged the stakeholders to make Anambra people proud and shed the cloak of election manipulators.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:27:36 +0000
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