Let’s talk things over, Tinubu tells ex-minister Uche Ogah

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged the ex-minister of state for Steel and Mines Development, Dr. Uche Ogah, to drop all court cases he filed over the Abia state governorship primaries and meet with him to discuss the matter.

Ogah had filed a lawsuit challenging the party’s declaration of Emenike as its governorship candidate.

Tinubu stated this during the Abia State APC presidential and governorship campaign flag-off at the Umuahia township stadium, explaining that his position on the governorship dispute is clear to all because Chief Ikechi Emenike has received the party’s governorship flag and should be supported to win the election.

“Two people are in court over our governorship flag,” he said. Whether they are in court or not, my position is that Chief Ikechi Emenike has received our party’s governorship flag and will be supported to win the election.

“Dr. Uche Ogah is a friend of mine and a member of our political party. Please halt all court proceedings and come see me. Let’s talk about it in the living room. We are the politicians. We brought the parties together to save Nigeria from hunger, destitution, and ignorance. Why are you directing me to politically neutral third parties? Please, let us discuss this.”

Tinubu promised to put an end to the era of strikes in the country’s universities and promised that students would no longer have to spend extra years for four-year courses.

Chief Emma Eneukwu, APC national deputy chairman, South, who represented the party’s national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, urged the people of the state to vote for APC candidates.

Senator Hope Uzodinma, Governor of Imo State, praised the party’s stakeholders in the state for their unity. He did, however, call for more reconciliation, emphasizing that only unity will ensure the party’s election victory.

Chief Ikechi Emenike, the party’s governorship candidate in the state, who praised Tinubu and Uzodinma for their support for the party in the state, claimed that there is a plot to prevent the APC from winning the 2023 elections in Abia. He stated that some people are working to keep Abia the way it is and urged party supporters to work hard and win the election in order to save and develop the state.

Speaking at the event, the APC’s National Welfare Officer, Sir Friday Nwosu, urged Abians not to waste the opportunity to elect the APC to govern the state.

However, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, caused a stir at the rally when she accused a certain senator of working against the interests of the APC in the state.

He accused the senator of working for the Action Peoples Party (APP) and endorsing other political parties’ candidates in the elections.

“Abia has been APC since 2015, but some people have been working for the PDP,” Onyejeocha said. And now they are backing another party, APP. As we speak, someone who is supposed to be our father and ensure that we remove the shackles and coven they have planted in Abia state is now supporting other political parties’ candidates. He is supporting four candidates in my federal constituency for the House of Representatives seat of Isuikwuato) Umunneochi. But I’m confident of winning because I am the candidate of the traditional rulers and the people.”