OPEN LETTER TO APC, BISI AKANDE & LAI MOHAMMED
ANAMBRA PRIMARY ELECTIONS: DISQUALIFY NGIGE NOW!
This open letter is to bring to the notice of the general public, particularly, APC members, APC leadership, Bisi Akande and Lai Mohammed, some irregularities being perpetrated by Dr. Ngige in connection with the forthcoming APC primaries in Anambra State. Specifically, these contraventions are against the APC guidelines for the nomination of candidate for the office of governor as specified by APC leadership.
This contravention has to do with Sections 2 and 12 of the guidelines. The APC guidelines for Primary elections states inter alia:
2. Minimum requirements
Must not have been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty or found guilty of contravention of the Code of Conduct within a period of 10 years before the date of the election.
12. Electoral Process
For Governorship aspirants, Ward Congresses employing direct open ballot in which members line up behind an aspirant poster or his/her representative is adopted, results shall be announced immediately at the ward. Final collation of results shall be made at the state capital and the winner announced accordingly.
Dr. Ngige did not satisfy the first condition, because in 2006, he was found guilty by a competent tribunal to have facilitated the fraud the made him governor, and he was punished by depriving him of the position. Also remember that he openly confessed to President Obasanjo how he and Chris Uba connived to rig the Anambra elections.
Ngige also is guilty of contravening the section 12 of the electoral guidelines. For now, with his position and connections and contacts in INEC, he has compiled names of some of his supporters and forwarded same to INEC Anambra as the list of authentic officers of the APC in Anambra.
It is trite law that one can’t be a judge in his own case; neither can one be an umpire and a player at the same time. By this action, Ngige has effectively sealed the result of the yet to be conducted primaries in Anambra State, if it is allowed to stand.
Hence the purpose of the letter. Am not familiar with the leadership of APC but certainly Lai Mohammed is a name that is associated with the new party. On many occasions, you had assured the general public and your teeming supporters that APC will correct all the evils of PDP, the Anambra case is a litmus one. If Ngige’s list is not withdrawn immediately from INEC, then it is no longer a level playing field, neither is it a free, fair and credible primaries as promised by APC leadership.
One simply wonders why all the manipulations of Ngige are receiving the tacit approval of the party leadership. Perhaps, because, he is one them, or simply because the leadership are far removed from the Anambra political arena to fully appreciate what is going on. However, a simple question each and every one of the leadership should ask his or herself: If Ngige cannot win the primaries without manipulation, what are his chances in the election proper?
The leadership of APC has worked really hard to put up such a formidable party, a party that without equivocation will most likely present the next president of Nigeria; the selfish ambition of one of its leaders should not be allowed to stand, less it ruins the party for everyone else.

keep dreaming.