Leadership
of the Stakeholders for Willie Obiano 2nd Tenure has warned voters in
Anambra State to resist any attempt by individuals or group to cause the
imposition of a sole administrator on the state by the federal
government by the reason of some people or group of persons who had
perfected plans to disrupt the November 18 election.
National Coordinator of the support
group, Chief Ekene Enefe gave the warning yesterday, following
persistent call by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to people
of the state to boycott the forthcoming election and the threat that
the scheduled November 18 governorship election in Anambra State would
not hold.
He said that in as much as the Igbo were
admittedly marginalized which well meaning Ndigbo including the Ohanaeze
were already fighting to ensure it was redressed; followers of Nnamdi
Kanu should not just obey any order given to them by the IPOB leader
without giving it a second thought.
“We should not shoot ourselves in the leg
in the name of fighting for our freedom. Anybody who says that there
will be no election in Anambra is definitely anti Igbo and that is
working against our common interest. Anambra is still part and parcel of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria and so we are still bound by the laws
of the nation. Don’t forget that if a crisis erupts in Anambra resulting
in non conduct of the election, the Federal Government has the
constitutional right to impose a sole administrator on the state who
might be a non Igbo. By then who is the loser? We must be told if that
is the plan of the architects of ‘no election in Anambra State,” chief
Enefe, who urged members of the group not to follow Kanu sheepishly,
asked.
On the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) leadership crisis, Chief Enefe said that the Nnewi High Court had
said “the defendants cannot hold such congress, conference or primary
election in the name of the APGA and for the purpose of selecting or
nominating any gubernatorial candidate for the APGA for the forthcoming
2017 Anambra State governorship election pending the hearing and
determination of the substantive motion on notice,” he clarified.
He said that with that court
pronouncement, supporters of Governor Obiano’s second term bid have
nothing to worry about and should go ahead with greater energy to work
for the governor’s success at the poll come November 18.
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