Anambra: Uba Wins PDP Ticket In Parallel Primary

Senator Ugochukwu Uba has emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State in a fringe primary conducted in Awka.

The primary held in parallel with the main parallel organized by the recognized panel delegated by the national leadership of the party. That panel led by Governor Samuel Ortom was yet to conclude the exercise as at the moment of this report.

The returning officer in the election, Chief Obidi Ebede, said Uba got 275 votes to defeat his closest rival, Godwin Ezeemo, with 114, while Senator Uche Ekwunife scored 56 votes to come third.

According to him, 665 accredited delegates.

Senator Uba, a former lecturer turned senator is the eldest of the Uba brothers in Anambra State comprising of Dr. Andy Uba who is an aspirant for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC and the stormy petrel of Anambra politics and political godfather in the PDP, Chief Chris Uba.

Meanwhile, the mainstream leadership of the party has defended the decision to use only super delegates for the recognized PDP primary as being on the need to heed court orders.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in the South-East Zone, Mr Elochukwu Okeke disclosed this on Saturday while briefing newsmen in Awka.

Okeke described the allegation as unfounded, adding that the exercise was being conducted in compliance with the multiple legal pronouncements concerning the exercise.

“The PDP is simply obeying all the  multiple legal pronouncements to ensure that those whose delegate’s status were nullified by the courts are not participating,” he said.

The zonal publicity secretary also dismissed a parallel governorship primary being held by an aggrieved group in the party.

He said that the parallel primary purportedly being conducted at Paul University in the name of Anambra PDP had no endorsement by the national leadership of the party.

Meanwhile, one of the aspirants, Dr. Godwin Maduka, said that the elimination of some hitherto statutory delegates through court pronouncements was not expected to negatively affect the exercise.

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