Anambra Candidates Dismiss Endorsement Of Ejidike As APC Chairman

By Okey Maduforo

Candidates contesting for the chairmanship of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra State have refuted the purported endorsement of Basil Ejidike as the preferred chairman of the party in ongoing congresses of the party.

Recall that on Thursday this week the twenty one local government Chairmen of the party led by Chief Frank Ndibe had endorsed the candidacy of Basil Ejidike sighting the decision of the National Working Committee( NWC) of the party that states can go for consensus candidates in the interest of the peace in the party.

Ndibe's faction had also boasted that with the twenty one local government Chairmen of the party throwing their weights behind Ejidike, other aspirants stand know chance of winning.

But according to one of the candidates for Chairman of APC ,

Chief Peter Nweadozie, what happened in the last local government and ward Congresses was a charade adding that the endorsement of Ejidike was a ploy by those hand picked local government Chairmen to compensate him for mentoring their respective ambitions.

Nweadozie who spoke through his Director General of the Campaign Organization Chief Nestor Okoro contended that the Ndibe led group are merely trying to creat crisis in the party adding that there was no semblance of internal democracy within the party during the two congresses adding that their endorsement holds no water.

"We have it on record the voice note of Frank Ndibe where he was mobilizing his co travellers to raise funds for the endorsement of Basil Ejidike and in the same voice note he confirmed that their forms were paid for by their benefactors which on a normal state they would have spent more and that is the genesis of that endorsement"

Nweadozie also dismissed claims that the National Working Committee of the APC had ordered for a consensus candidates contending that there was never a time the body announced that states should go for consensus.

"We all have the time table and guild lines of our party concerning the conduct of the three Congresses and the issue of consensus was never stamped as the only process of electing our office holders " 

"What these people are doing is to creat a kind of impression that the normal congresses were people vote and be voted for doesn't exist and they are using all manner of name dropping to cow faithful party members into submitting to their plot to impose Ejidike on the APC in Anambra state" he stated.

Efforts to contact the National leadership of the party proved abortive ahead of the March 3rd state Congress in Awka Anambra state Capital.