By Charles Igbo
Senator Andy Uba, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the just concluded Anambra Governorship election, has expressed his deep and profound appreciation to the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma.
Uba was reacting to what he described as a complete mischief by an online publication which claimed that he, Uba, has cried out that the Imo Governor had stopped taking his calls since the conclusion of the election in which the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Professor Charles Soludo, was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The publication also claimed that Uba had asked Uzodinma to return an imagined $30m he purportedly gave Uzodinma to procure the election.
These claims and allegations are being celebrated by those opposed to Uzodinma’s Government in Imo.
But in a statement signed on his behalf by Hon Victor Afam Ogene, the Director Media and Publicity of his Campaign Organisation, Uba said nothing could be further from the truth. He said the allegations were lies from the pit of hell.
Uba: ” In one of such claims, a nondescript online rendezvous claimed that Senator Uba was lamenting that Governor Uzodimma of Imo State was no longer picking his calls. Nothing else could be farther from the truth, as it is public knowledge that as Chairman of the APC National Campaign Council, Senator Uba owes the Imo State Governor a huge debt of gratitude for his financial and leadership roles in the electioneering process”
Continuing, Uba said: “We regard this foolish tale as part of a deliberate ploy by APGA to get as many APC chieftains as possible at odds with Uba.”
This magazine recalls that such false claims to the effect that Uba has been asking for the return of his money had also been made against Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke, and Senator Stella Oduah, both of whom decamped to the APC from APGA and the PDP respectively.
Uba insists on challenging the outcome of the election in the Courts, the pressure on him not to do so notwithstanding.
