years in this interview with LAWRENCE NJOKU, spoke on why the party did not win the Anambra governorship election and its chances going into 2023 general elections in the Southeast.I am as disappointed as any other APC chieftain. As a party man, I had hoped that we would win the Anambra State governorship election and that hope would translate to Enugu come 2023 because of the direct link between Enugu and Anambra. I prayed for Senator Andy Uba to win that election. Unfortunately, we did not.
Then you come down to the Southeast, which is the only zone where they appointed one person to be a member of the National Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee. Nobody protested it, South-south has three representatives and this shows the extent of marginalisation of the Southeast. There are six geo-political zones but we are the only one that has one person. To make the matter worse, the person they picked from the southeast has no experience running a party.
The other aspirants who participated in the governorship primary alleged there was no primary; he did nothing to unite them. Rather, he was busy with his book “Standing Strong”. It is misfocus that caused us the election. He wanted to reinvent himself and went about mobilising for his personal growth in the midst of a campaign. He was busy making invitations for his book launch to the North, East and Central.
Take Enugu as a case study, it was Nnamani that facilitated the truncation of internal democracy, where people were holding congresses and they were writing results at the Southeast secretariat. Like what happened in Eke Ward, where a man scored over 600 direct votes and you replaced his name with someone that scored one vote.
Ken has failed to deliver Anambra, he failed to unite the party and has totally factionalised the membership.
And they want APC presidential ticket