Intrigues As Kalu Pushes Brother In Aba Rep Election

Senate Chief Whip and penultimate governor of Abia State was at the weekend pushing his younger brother Mascot Kalu for the vacant Aba Federal Constituency election taking place on Saturday, March 27, 2021.

While Kalu had gotten the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to back the brother’s candidature, other APC stalwarts especially those from Aba are insisting that the party has no candidate.

Critics within the party insist that there was no primary where Mascot participated to emerge as the candidate of the party. Mascot had represented the constituency before and critics say that he did not make any impression either in the House of Representatives or with projects in Aba.

Rejecting the criticisms and affirming Kalu’s candidatureIn a statement on Friday, APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, urged the electorate to disregard the objections to Mascot.

“APC is an orderly party. We have followed diligently the electoral procedures leading to the candidature of Mr. Mascot Uzor in Saturday’s bye-election and we are out to win and not just to participate.

“We also appeal to all the stakeholders, the electoral umpire and the general public to disregard anything contrary to the position of the party leadership regarding the candidature of Mr. Mascot Uzor”, Nabena said.

One of the APC aspirants  GreenWhiteGreen GWG gathered filed a suit against the presentation of Mascot as the candidate.

The APC aspirant, Nwokeocha Ogbonnaya asked the court to disqualify Mascot from the election on the claim that he was not properly nominated.

The nomination has also been challenged by a key party stalwart, Paul Ikonne, the Executive Secretary of National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA).

“Aba doesn’t belong to one family. No one can take us back to Okija Shrine. You can’t make a mess of Aba and come back to laugh at us,” Ikonne said during a programme on Magic FM in disavowal of Kalu and his brother Mascot.

“If he believes in Aba, he should have supported another person not his brother. Not even his younger brother who had gone there before with no single legacy anywhere in Aba. We live and grow together and we have been doing that. But OUK is all for his family, not even for his community nor Abia North”, Ikonne said.

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