Mr. Vinmartin Ilo, the APC, governorship candidate for Aninri/Awgu/Oji-River Federal Constituency, has accused Mr. Emma Eneukwu the Deputy National Chairman, South, of the party, of trying to subvert the will of the people.
In a statement made available to DAILY POST, Ilo said after he won the primary election, Eneukwu had stopped at nothing to replace his name with that of a Peoples Democratic Party, chieftain.
Ilo, however, vowed that he would stop at nothing “to protect the mandate you gave me on the 27th of May 2022, as the HOR candidate of our great party for Aninri/ Awgu/ Oji-River Federal Constituency in the 2023 General election.”
According to him, “There was a primary election on the 27th of May, 2022, which I won with 134 votes to my opponent’s 52 votes.
“My election was endorsed by the House of Representatives Primary Election Panel for Enugu State and supported by an affidavit deposed to by the Chairman of the panel Hon. Leonard Ikechukwu Ekwensi at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
“The Enugu State HOR Election Appeal Committee headed by His Excellency Ben Etiaba upheld my election on 27th May, 2022 as APC candidate for Aninri/ Awgu/ Oji River Federal Constituency.
“That INEC, DSS and Nigeria Police witnessed the election and their official reports acknowledged my election as the APC candidate.
“However Emma Eneukwu and Ugochukwu Agballa, using their position in the party, want to STEAL the mandate the people of Greater Awgu gave me and sell it to members of the PDP, their pay masters.
“Since their efforts to cancel the election and order a rerun against our constitution failed, they have resorted to blackmail and use of RAW POWER.
“Emma Eneukwu told me to my face on Thursday 2nd of May, 2022, when I went to see him in his office at APC National Secretariat, that they were negotiating with Ben Alukwu and Toby Okechukwu (card carrying members of the PDP and had participated in the PDP primaries) to take my House of Representatives ticket because I was not part of their structure.
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