The All Progressives Congress in Anambra State has dismissed the claims by the All Progressives Grand Alliance that the Anambra State Government cannot conduct council election because of ligation.
The Anambra State Chairman of APGA, Chief Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, had in a recent interview blamed the non-conduct of local government elections in the state on a “litany of litigation at the Supreme Court”.
Anambra conducted local government election only once since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, which was towards the end of the tenure of former Governor Peter Obi in January 2014.
Reacting to APGA’s claims in a statement on Saturday, the Publicity Secretary of APC in Anambra, Okelo Madukaife, stated that there was no court order restraining the conduct of LG elections in the state.
He said excuses given by APGA as to why the state had not conducted LG elections since 2014, had expired.
The statement read in part, “Not surprisingly, Obi-Okoye did not mention the parties, the subject matter of the suit(s), or the specific orders, if any, tying the hands of the Anambra State Government on LG elections.
“Former Governor Peter Obi when he was in APGA, used that excuse until it suffered self-expiration. Former Governor Wille Obiano applied that excuse to corner the resources of LGs.
“Now, Governor Soludo, who was emphatic about holding LG elections in September 2022, as part of electoral promise has failed and is finding a leeway in the latest APGA umbrage.
“Come September 02, 2023, Edo State will repent from the sin that Anambra is older at by electing LG officials.
“Yet, Anambra State is wasting money paying a set of near unproductive staff for doing next to nothing, having no board and draining the resources of the state under the colourless leadership of Chukwuma Soludo’s APGA.”
