VICTOR UMEH IS JUST BEING A CRY-BABY -EKWUNIFE …VOWS NOT TO SUCCUMB TO APC’S ADVANCES By O’STAR EZE

The senator-elect of Anambra central senatorial zone, Honourable Mrs Uche Ekwunife (Iyom) has described her opponent, Sir Victor Umeh’s threats to go to court as the petty rantings of a cry-baby. She made this statement during a media chat with journalists in Anambra state recently at Crescent Spring Hotel, Awka. She said that she had read in the papers rumors making rounds that the election was rigged. ‘Let it be on record’, she affirmed, ‘that i won the election massively and that the election was free, fair and credible.’ She added that even before the election, it was clear she would win. Every function she attended and her opponents were present; it was clear from the people’s cheers, that she was the people’s choice.

Continuing, she said she won the election because she was accountable to her people; she gave account of her stewardship. He has all the polling results. She would ‘win him silly if the election is repeated a million times.’ She suggested that what killed Victor Umeh was his method of engaging in campaign of calumny. While he was busy calling her names, she went about articulating her stewardship to the grassroot. Even those that had money to support her were discouraged when they saw the people she was campaigning against but she was not discouraged.

In her words, ‘Victor Umeh should be advised to accept defeat. He overstretched his luck grabbing all the positions of power to himself… He said he’d been delivering everybody yet he couldn’t deliver himself.’  She attributed the secret to her success to the fact that she kept touch with the people that voted her in.

 Hon. Uche Ekwunife alleged that the electorate are being threatened by the government.  ‘But the constituents of her senatorial zone have gone beyond threats’, she affirmed, ‘they have become politically aware’. She narrated how, during campaign she went to Mgbuka Obosi, only to find out that the governor instructed the marketers not to accept her. She brought waste bins, the governor threatened them and the bins were not accepted.

‘APGA has refused to field credible candidates’, Iyom alleged, ‘they do pick and drop and that has been their undoing. She promised she would give the people credible representation.

Iyom disagreed that the PDP was a minority saying that APC  has not the national spread PDP has. APGA has no place in Nigerian politics, she said. While PDP has up to 40  senate elects, APC has 60, so PDP still remains a formidable force as they have a large chunk of the vote.

The distinguished senator-elect of Anambra central senatorial zone dismissed the rumor that she had plans of decamping to APC, saying that, though there were advances at her to join APC,  she turned them down. She said, ‘ I am Proud to be PDP and will be sworn in as a PDP senator.