The national
chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Sir Victor Umeh, has
petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the
possibility of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) fielding multiple candidates
for each electoral position in the 2015 general elections in Anambra State.
In a letter
to the PDP national chairman, Adamu Muazu, the APGA chieftain urged the party
not to willingly or negligently parade multiple candidates for the coming
elections just as he threatened that APGA and its candidates would go to court
to seek the disqualification of the PDP and its multiple candidates for the
National Assembly and State Assembly elections in Anambra State in 2015.
Umeh, in
the letter to the INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, stated that,
“We write to
bring your attention to another unfolding ugly situation of the PDP likely
going to field multiple candidates for each of the elective positions to be
contested in the forthcoming 2015 general elections in Anambra State.
“In 2011,
the PDP contested the various elections with multiple candidates, relying on
court orders, with the national leadership of the PDP ignoring the court orders
and filing separate lists of candidates. In the end, the PDP paraded more than
one candidate for each of the various elections during the campaigns against
one candidate sponsored by APGA for each position.
“We,
therefore, request that you use your office to direct that the commission shall
receive only one list of candidates from the PDP for the National Assembly and
State Assembly elections in Anambra State for the 2015 general elections, the
Commission should be proactive in arresting this illegality to maintain sanity
in the electoral process.”
In the
letter to Muazu, Umeh drew his attention to what he termed the “absurd
situation in the past” when the PDP had fielded multiple candidates for each
constituency election in Anambra State, arising from leadership disputes that
created two or three factions of the party in the state.
“In
consequence, thereof, the PDP campaigned with two or three candidates for the
same seat against one candidate fielded by our great party, as required by
law,” he said
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