Anambra: APC ,PDP, LP Boycott September Local Council Polls, Head for The Court

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The All Progressive Congress, APC, has officially announced its boycott of the September 28, 2024, scheduled Anambra state Local Council Polls.

The Party has also headed to  Court to  challenge the Local Government Electoral process as being organized by the Anambra state Independent Electoral Commission ANSIEC.

The State Government, for the first time in over a decade, about two months ago, set the machineries in motion for the conduct of the Council Polls, with the reconstitution of the State’s electoral body which had been in limbo  since 2014.

The State Chairman, Basil Ejidike, who revealed the APC’s position, while addressing wards and local council officials of the party in Awka at the weekend, said as a party founded on justice, fairness and equity, it has no intention to legitimize illegality.

According to Ejidike, available and credible intelligence and variables have all strongly suggested that Governor Chukwuma Soludo and the ANSIEC have concluded plans to manipulate the election.

He insisted that APC’s participation at the polls will only serve to confer credibility and legitimacy on a process already primed for manipulation and compromise

“The Governor has already set up a Tribunal at the Anambra State High Court here in Awka for political parties that wish to challenge the outcome of the election.

“Governor Soludo is not prepared to conduct a transparent election that can give Ndi Anambra credible leadership at the Local Government level”, the APC Chairman stated .

Chief Ejidike informed that already the party has decided to mount a legal challenge against the exercise.

” We are are already in Court to challenge the process because APC, being a major party in Anambra State, must try as much as possible to live by example.

“The Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Labour Party LP have, also, gone to Court to challenge the irregularities.We applaud them.” Ejidike  noted .

The Source reports that with his own re-election project just some month’s away, Governor Soludo appears to be according the September 28 Council Polls more than a cursory attention.

The election in the main, holds the potentials of shaping, and even determining his own fate when the Gubernatorial contest beckons early 2025.

The reality is nevertheless not lost on him, as every conceivable arsenal has been deployed to conquer perceived foes, including within his own immediate political family – the All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA.