NGIGE OUT OBI IN"I AM DOWN BUT NOT"
The travails of the earstwhile
governor of
anambra state has been long and enduring it was a drama that unfolded with the declaration of Dr
chris NGIGE as governor of anambra state,and the fall out with his enstranged god father chris uba ,whose claims that he and the governor had an aggreement has been vehemently and hotly denied by the governor,the crises took a turn for the worse with the abduction of the governor ,security operatives precisely men of the nigerian police force led by the state police commissioner, a move which was believed by keen watchers of the political scene to be the handiwork of the federal government,ngige managed to survive this episode but continued attempts to remove him from office has continued unabated,even the high
court in the neighbouring state of enugu unconstitutionaly
declared his
election to be null and void ,high ranking officials of the
peoples democratic party have consistently called on him to resign, but ngige weathered the storm with the mammoth support he got from the teeming masses of the state , the civil rights activists, and fellow governors,but he got no respite from the unyielding forces coming against him ,when governor ngige tried to join the all progressive grand alliance,he was rebuffed by a party which claimed he was representing a party which rubbed APGA at the polls,and even in the PDP in which he and his aide have chosen to stay put ngige alongside plateau,and bayelsa state goernors joshua dariye and dsp alamisiegha were respectively expelled from the PDP,even the election tribunal sitting in awka ,the anambra state capital, declared his election to be null and void putting the electoral commission in a very awkward position in the eyes of nigerians and the world. even president olusegun obasanjo said openly in the public that the election was rigged and now the The Court of Appeal in Enugu, on Wednesday, declared Mr. Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, as the winner of the April 19, 2003 governorship election in Anambra State.
The court held that Dr. Chris Ngige, who until Wednesday held the position of governor, was not duly elected. It said that contrary to the confirmation of Ngige by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the governor, Obi won the poll by scoring the majority of lawful votes. The court largely adopted the August 12, 2005 judgment of the Anambra Election Petitions Tribunal in Awka, which affirmed Obi as the winner of the poll.
It was also a bad day for the INEC as it was heavily “condemned” for filing an application seeking for outright cancellation of the results of the election it had labouriously defended at the lower tribunal.
Ngige was not in the court but his Deputy, Chief Ugochukwu Nwankwo, who left before the proceedings ended.
And now it seems another twist has come into the anambra state saga only time will tell how it would unfold when we are so close to the 2007 polls.
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