Imo North APC Primaries: No one forced us to step down – Anyanwu, others

By Emmanuel Iheaka, OWERRI

The three feeble aspirants for Imo North senatorial seat, on the factual-concluded main of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Longers Anyanwu, Hon Gloria Akobundu and Kennedy Odoeme, possess insisted that they weren’t forced to stepped down for the incumbent, Senator Patrick Ndubueze.

Recall that the trio, regarded as as solid contenders, had announced their withdrawal from the speed quickly earlier than the commencement of the main.

They’d long gone additional to pledge their give a boost to for Ndubueze and educated their supporters to vote for the incumbent.

In a press briefing in Owerri on Saturday, the feeble aspirants famed that the possibility became once in admire of the zoning association within the subject.

They reaffirmed that Ndubueze became once announced the winner of the election and educated the general public to put out of your mind any file insinuating otherwise.

“Event devoted within the senatorial district became out of their numbers and solid their votes for aspirants of their different with out hindrance or intimidation.

“The climax, on the least in Okigwe zone, became once the overwhelming reaffirmation today of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the celebration’s presidential candidate for a 2d consecutive time.

“The voice in Imo Teach and especially in Imo North became once unprecedentedly hitch-free and devoid of the wrangling beforehand linked to celebration primaries of this magnitude. Both the primaries organizing committees, the aspirants and their supporters performed themselves in an neat formula and the technique main to the emergence of candidates at all levels became once now not superb seamless however applauded by all.

“We acknowledge and commend the a whole lot of blueprint of the “Renewed Hope Ambassadors” who from ward, native and teach levels coordinated the collation of the Presidential Primaries today in Imo Teach.

“A placing case became once the Imo North Senatorial District primaries which took teach on Monday, 18th Could per chance, 2026.

“The three of us, solid aspirants particularly: Chief Longers Anyanwu, Princess Gloria Akobundu and Mr. Kennedy Ike Odoeme, within the speed for the Imo North Senatorial main election stepped down for the serving Senator, Engr. Patrick Ndubueze and advised our supporters to vote for him. We came to that possibility now not superb in obedience to the contemporary zoning association by the elders and leaders of the Senatorial District which favours Senator Ndubueze.

“On yarn of that daring step, the registered APC people in Imo North trooped out of their numbers to solid their votes for Senator Ndubueze who at final clinched the stamp.

“The narrative being bandied about within the media projecting somebody else as the Imo North senatorial candidate wants to be omitted. The basic election within the district became once performed, outcomes collated and announced as acceptable by the returning officer duly assigned so that you just may develop by the APC Nationwide Working Committee (NWC)and we are obvious that the committee has submitted the outcomes to the acceptable authorities”, the erstwhile aspirants submitted.

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