By Jonathan Elendu
Chekwas Okorie, chairman of the board of trustees (BoT) of the All-Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has congratulated chairmanship and councillorship candidates in Saturday’s local government elections in Anambra state.
In a press statement on Monday, Okorie said: “It is with great joy that I congratulate on behalf of the Board of Trustees of our great party, all the victorious Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates who swept the polls and resoundingly won the recently conducted Local Government Election in Anambra State.”
Okorie also congratulated Chief Edozie Njoku, the National Chairman of APGA.
“I doff my hat to the National Chairman, Chief Edozie Njoku, who led from the front, the rigorous campaign of our candidates, which resulted in this overwhelming victory,” he said.
“The foundation has been firmly established to win convincingly the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship election in November 2025.”
Okorie appealed to the Anambra State governor, Prof. Soludo to swear-in the winners of the local government elections expeditiously.
“I urge Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State to proceed without delay to swear into office the lawful and legitimate chairmen-elect and Councillors-elect duly sponsored by APGA led by Chief Edozie Njoku as National Chairman in accordance with the clear and unambiguous provisions of the 1999 constitution of the Federation Republic of Nigeria as amended and the Electoral Act.”
Waving what may be deemed an olive branch to the Anambra governor, Okorie said, “Governor Chukwuma Soludo should sieze this singular opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty to the Party, which is supreme as well as his obedience to the rule of law in accordance with his oath of office. This is the path of honor for the governor.”
Anambra State conducted its local government elections on Saturday, September 28th, 2024. The elections came after a Supreme Court judgement which granted full autonomy to the third tier of government.
The election was, however, fraught with problems as many many political parties boycotted the exercise because of some obnoxious amendments by the Anambra State House of Assembly to the law setting up the state electoral body.
