Nigeria’s ex-Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, yesterday, threw his
weight behind the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Mr Oseloka Obaze, ahead of the November 18 Anambra
election.
The endorsement of Obaze’s candidature by the elder statesman has
laid to rest speculations in the media of the endorsement of the second
term bid of the incumbent governor, Chief Willie Obiano.
Addressing PDP faithful in his family house at Oko, Orumba North
Local Government Area of the state, Ekwueme said time had come to unseat
the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to pave way for a PDP
government in the state.
He noted that Anambra had been a PDP state, regretting that APGA
was able to steer the affairs of the state for 12 years as a result of
the protracted crisis in PDP.
“Anambra State is a PDP state from inception; we shall
henceforth continue with PDP. Time has come for us to take away power
from APGA,” he said.
Ekwueme, whose first daughter, Chidi Onyemelukwe, is the running
mate to Obaze in the governorship race, insisted that the November 18
poll would bring to an end, the fame of APGA in the state.
On his part, Obaze described Ekwueme’s endorsement of his candidacy
and that of his daughter as “eloquent testimony of his position in the
party.”
He said the choice of his daughter as running mate was to
compensate him for the enormous job he did in the transformation of
Igboland.