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‘Obi Used PDP To Settle Scores, His Impunity Made Us Lose Anambra Election’ – Chris Uba

The Oasis Reporters

November 21, 2017

Former president Goodluck Jonathan during his Anambra flood disaster visit with Peter Obi, then governor of Anambra state (right).

A member of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Chris Uba, has blamed a former Governor of the state, Peter Obi, for the party’s loss in the poll, calling on the party to avoid impunity and do introspection over it’s ordeal.

Speaking at a press conference in Awka, Uba said the candidate of the PDP in Saturday’s election, Obaze was not known to the founding members of the party in the state, adding that Obi brought him and foisted him on everybody.

“It’s because of this impunity that Obiano won this election. My heart is bleeding that we lost this election again. Anambra State is a PDP state, yet each time we will lose to ‘strangers’,” he said.

“How is it that each time, a party somebody is nurturing will be hijacked by strangers some months to the election?
Obi has not won any election without my input. Why did he bring a foreigner to represent us in this election? That is the cause of this loss.

“He caused us that problem and (Goodluck) Jonathan lost that election. PDP should stop this impunity. Some of those governors that came here to campaign for the PDP here could not have been governors without my input. Why didn’t they ask after me when they came here to campaign?

“Obi doesn’t have the capacity to make Obaze or anybody a governor without my input. Obi has killed this party. This is an election we would have won with a wide margin. Obi carried what he could not control.

“My heart is bleeding. We lost this election by coming distant third. In such a large party, you don’t use it to settle scores. Obi came into the PDP to settle scores with Obiano, his former ally. That was our bane in this election.

“Obi should apologise to the PDP in five national dailies for this disappointment he caused us. Failure to apologise; I know what to do.”

In another development, Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded Anambra State governorship election, Oseloka Obaze, has rejected the result of the poll.

Obaze, who spoke to a Punch correspondent on the telephone, described the outcome of the election as pre-determined insisting that the results of the local governments did not reflect the voting pattern.

When asked if he was satisfied with the exercise, the PDP candidate said, “No, not quite. This seems to be a pre-determined result because it is not consistent with the voters’ turnout and the pattern.

“It has never happened in Anambra politics that the winner wins 21 local governments. So, we need to look closely at what happened, why the incumbent Governor is coming out top consistently.

“That questions whether the other candidates have no stronghold as individuals and their respective parties. There is a certain dubious consistency that, just on the face of it, is an aberration.

“INEC has to give an account on why there was over-voting, why there was inconsistency between what was uploaded and what was actually voted.

“If you have a higher number on the chart and there were no issues where people were fully accredited and left, then how did you have higher figures in the card readers than the voting itself?”

When asked if he would challenge the result at the tribunal, Obaze stated, “Well, I am still consulting my people and I am still waiting.”

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