INEC list pitches President against Anambra PDP stalwarts

As President Goodluck Jona­than is expected to storm Anam­bra State today for his campaign, there is uneasy calm in the state following the recent release of list of candidates for senatorial elections in by the Inde­pendent Electoral Com­mission, INEC.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stalwart in the state, Chief John Ngonadi told Saturday Sun that Pres­ident Jonathan may not be warmly received by mem­bers of the party following the recent development in the list of candidates re­leased by INEC from which major political pundits were excluded.

Chief Ngonadi further re­vealed that the list of candi­dates for the three senatorial zones, which was published by INEC, was the major cause of problem among some bigwigs in Anambra who have been the major fi­nanciers of President Jona­than’s second term bid.

He said the list where the names of Senator Andy Uba, Iyom Uche Ekwunife and Stella Odua were con­spicuously missing portends danger to the party and Mr. President’s chances of win­ning elections in the state.

“We had expected the party leadership at the Na­tional level to look into the matter critically especially with the view to solving the inherent problems asso­ciated with selecting can­didates who would stand elections and deliver the party and also deliver Mr. President. But today, we noticed that some elements who have been the destroy­ers of PDP in the state have found their ways to bribe some party officials and INEC staff to smuggle their names as candidates of PDP in the state”

He called on the National Executive Council of the party to quickly resolve what he called mix-up in the release of the list of the authentic candidates of the party for the three senatorial zones of the state.

It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had released the list of candidates for senatorial election in the state across all the participating political parties.

In the list, the names of Senator Andy Uba current­ly representing Anambra South, Mrs. Uche Ekwun­ife, representing Anaocha/ Dunukofia//Njikoka federal constituency and former Minister for Aviation, Mrs. Stella Odua were missing.