2023: Imo APC senatorial aspirant rejects result of primary election

… Calls on national body to conduct fresh election
….Says sham, show of shame happened midnight

By Editor

All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Dr Kemdi Opara, has rejected the outcome of primary elections held in Owerri Zone of the state.

Dr. Opara, to this end, has called on the national leadership of the party to conduct a fresh primary elections in the Zone in order to produce a credible candidate.

The aspirant in his petition to the national secretariat of the APC, alleged amongst other things that the purported primary election he described as sham, show of shame happened in the midnight.

Revealing further that the charade has no venue, no accredited delegates, no agents, no returning officer and cannot be called an election, Dr. Opara appealed to the public to, “Please ignore the concocted figure allotted to me. I didn’t participate!.”

In his petition entitled, “PATRIOTIC CALL”, he said, “I, Dr Kemdi Opara, a leading aspirant in the yet to be conducted Imo East senatorial primaries, my Campaign Council and our teeming supporters across the zone, hereby disassociate entirely from the sham, show of shame that went on in the dead of the night, termed, Imo East senatorial primaries.

“As a people with good conscience, prized reputation, good moral standards and strong integrity, we can’t be involved in such a brazen impunity and wanton theft of the people’s will, all in the name of politics, no matter what is at stake.

“Politics should not be associated with anything bad, immoral, indecent and evil.

“A charade that has no venue, no accredited delegates, no agents, no returning officer cannot be called an election to produce a senatorial candidate for the elitist people of Owerri zone.

“Please ignore the concocted figure allotted to me. I didn’t participate!

“We therefore join other patriotic voices to condemn such act in its entirety. In the same vein, we call the leadership of our party, APC to intervene and rescue our party from this eminent extinction rising from injustices meted on our members in the zone.

“We call on them to come down and conduct a proper primary devoid of favouritism, hand picking, inducements, imposition and foisting a candidate against the wishes and aspirations of members.

“Rather they should come and conduct an exercise that will not only be free, fair and credible, but will be all embracing for survival of our nascent democracy.

“Let me also use this opportunity to thank my teeming supporters and delegates who followed us till the end. Please remain calm, maintain peace. We must fight and not relent in making sure that due process is followed, and justice done.