Victor Umeh will never be Senator representing Anambra Central, vows Ekwunife, lashes out at Obiano

www.odogwublog.com reports that the fear of Senator Uche Ekwunife, representing Anambra Central senatorial district, has gripped APGA.
Though court of Appeal sitting in Enugu neither disqualified her nor her party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from participating in the fresh election it ordered for Anambra Central Senatorial District, she has vowed Chief Victor Umeh will not smell the senate for blackmailing her.
Ekwunife told www.odogwublog.com that : “We have 720,000 registered voters in Anambra Central, I scored 95,000, Victor Umeh scored 83,000. Will that not show you that this election was free and fair and credible? Less than 25 per cent of registered voters came out to vote, only for the court to merely nullify the election based on (a) flimsy excuse. The same panel cleared other candidates, upheld their election in the court; (yet), we were all products of the same primaries? Why did they single me out?
“I’ve taken it in good faith, but I want to tell you that Victor Umeh is very unlucky. This is the first time I see somebody celebrating nullification. He is unlucky because I am in the race again and I will beat him silly again, he has nowhere to hide.
“In the last election, remember, the governor barred me from entering any market, the Government House wrote letters to presidents general (that) they shouldn’t receive me in their communities. They enacted one act, Unlawful Assembly Act, within two hours they signed it into law, first reading, second reading, public hearing, the governor signed it into law just to stop Ekwunife. With all that they did, still, I won in that election.
“They’ve started again with their propaganda, the same type of story they told in the last election. Remember in the last election, he came up with the rumour that I wasn’t the candidate, later they saw I was the candidate and I won.
He has started again while I am busy doing my campaign, he will be busy looking for issues to blackmail me, blacklist me or malign my integrity.
So, I want to say, finally, that I am in the race and I am in the race to win. The coast is clear, the environment is conducive for me to go in and win my election.”
On the report that PDP was planning fresh primary, she said: “Yes the party is ready for primaries, mind you, the Court of Appeal ordered for fresh election and fresh election means all parties that participated before will participate. The PDP wants to do a fresh primary. I am ready for the primary. Any other party that participated is also free to substitute their candidate if they so wish, depending on what parties want to do but the fact remains that this is fresh. It is not rerun. Re-run is between the first and the second but fresh election means all parties are involved, they are going for election. This is fresh election; I believe we are fresh candidates.
“But what is more important is that Victor Umeh is a character Anambra people know. Uche Ekwunife, Anambra people also know, so two of us are in the market, people will now put premium on us and know who has a better premium, who is better for them and they will vote for that person. We have gone beyond party politics now, it is about the content and characters of the candidate, these are things that will determine in this election, it is not about APC, it is not about APGA, PDP, is not about Labour Party, it is about the characters in the election because they know us very well. They know our capacity, our capabilities, vision and mission, therefore this election will be based on personality not on party.
“Who is Umeh fooling, everybody knows him, he has come to the end of the road, he can”t escape it. This seat he can’t near it, he will not be a senator, it is as simple as that. let him stop blackmailing me, nobody disqualified me, I am competent. the only way you can disqualify a candidate in an election is based on Section 65 and Section 66, it can never be based on flawed primaries. But it is unfortunate that he is turning upside-down the judgment of the court but I am taking him to court.”