Anambra poll: LP guber aspirant, Nwosu dismisses Moghalu’s emergence as candidate

By Jude Opara

An aspirant of the Labour Party, (LP), in the Anambra State governorship election, John Nwosu has dismissed the emergence of his opponent, Dr George Moghalu as candidate of the party for the November poll.

Nwosu also dismissed his alleged participation in the primary election of the party, which took place on Saturday in Awka, where Moghalu emerged as the candidate.

Nwosu in a press release by the Director General of John Nwosu Campaign Organization, Ben Chuks Nwosu said he never took part in the primary election where votes were allocated to him, having previously stepped down from the race as a result of irregularities in the compilation of delegates’ list.

The press release read in part: “The attention of John Nwosu Campaign Organization has been drawn to the purported allocation of some votes to our principal Mr John Chuma Nwosu at the 5th April Labour Party primary election, in which he did not participate in person or by proxy.

“Accordingly, it is patently mischievous for the organizers of the purported election to allocate any number of votes purportedly cast by delegates to Mr John Chuma Nwosu who had withdrawn from the primary election because of cogent and verifiable series of manipulations of the delegates list.

“Nwosu chose to withdraw because the election lacked legitimacy in the teeth of the intent and meaning of the Supreme Court judgment sacking the National Chairman, Barr. Julius Abure.”

Nwosu said his principal wrote both the sacked national chairman, Julius Abure and the caretaker chairman, Nenadi Usman, including the primary election committee, and there was no locus for them to have portrayed him as participating in the election or even allocating votes to him.

“We advise all members of the Labour Party in Anambra State, nationwide and all citizens of Nigeria, who it may concern to disregard this subterfuge allocation of any number of votes to Mr. John Chuma Nwosu who withdrew from the purported primary election.

“We know that the motive was to accord the farce the modicum of legitimacy it lacks from it’s organization, to it’s obtuse execution,” Nwosu said.