2023: Respect democratic process, stop parading self as Ebonyi PDP guber candidate, Campaign Organisation tells Sen. Ogba


The Anyichuks Campaign Organization has advised Senator Obinna Ogba to desist from parading himself as Ebonyi governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and respect democratic processes ahead of the 2023 polls for interest of peace in the party.

It recalls that the Federal High Court had on June 7 nullified PDP's primary elections of June 5 and 6 that produced Ogba as candidate for the Party.

In a statement issued on Friday in Abakaliki to newsmen, Mr Abia Onyike, Director, Media and Publicity, AnyiChuks Campaign Organization advised Ogba to stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of Ebonyi for 2023 polls.

AnyiChuks Campaign Organization is for Dr Ifeanyichukuma Odii, whose the court had declared the authentic flag bearer of the PDP in the state.

Odii won in the three-man delegate party's primary of May 29, that was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

According to the statement, "we have overtime tolerated and ignored the excessive antics of the Sen. Obinna Ogba Campaign group.

"The reason for our matured approach to issues was our understanding that we were members of the same family engaged in internal power struggle to elect our candidates to face other parties come 2023 General Elections.

"We looked forward to someday when we shall mend fences, reconcile and close ranks to face the common enemy. And that time is NOW.

"However, we wish to seize this opportunity to clarify our position on the following: With all due respect Sen. Ogba, who contested the 2022 PDP Governorship Primaries in Ebonyi State and lost to the winner, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odi, we plead with him to show some restraint and maturity by respecting the democratic processes.

"Stop taking laws into his own hands. His current posturing constitutes a clog in the wheel of progress of our great party of the PDP in Ebonyi State.

"We take exception to Sen. Ogba's continuous and unrelenting crusade of falsehood and his irridentist commitment to misrepresent and disobey the sacred orders of a Court of competent jurisdiction.

"His continuous disobedience of the orders of the Federal High Court, Abakaliki, which nullified the PDP primaries of June, 5 and 6, 2022 has been noted. His conduct is not only sacrilegious but an act of contemptuous effrontery against the judicial authorities," the statement read.

"For instance, Sen. Ogba has continued to parade himself as the PDP Guber candidate for Ebonyi state, advertising his Certificate of Return which the Court had already nullified.

The statement also noted that Ogba, had on June 23 failed secure "Stay of Execution" in the Court of Appeal, Enugu,

"After it, he went ahead and addressed a small gathering of his supporters and purportedly presented his so-called Deputy Governorship Candidate/Running mate to nowhere in particular.

"The PDP NWC has nothing to do with Ogba's Running Mate as it is an exercise in futility. The Party has already screened the Deputy Governorship Candidate to Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odi, in the person of Sen Igwe Nwagu.

"Is this the case of a bad loser or a case of unbridled desperation, impunity, anarchism or impersonation or what?

"Was it not on the June 21, 2022 that Ogba approached the Court of Appeal to apply to be joined in the case at the Federal High Court Abakaliki, to enable him file his Appeal?

"So, if he was the PDP Governorship Candidate as he falsely/continuously claims, what then did he go to do at the Court of Appeal? If Ogba cannot obey a Court Order, then he has no business going to any other Court for that matter, including the Court of Appeal.

"He who goes to Equity must go with clean hands.

"A person who promotes the flouting of Court Orders is an anarchist and an anti-democratic element.

"When a Court of Law gives a judgement on an issue and someone deliberately commissions himself to be misinterpreting the judgement in the eyes of the public, that individual is engaging in criminal contempt of court and should be getting ready to go to jail.

"Our Lawyers will not hesitate to file Contempt Proceedings against him if these calculated acts of brigandage are not halted forthwith," the statement stated.

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