Anambra South Senate Seat: APGA’s Emecheta Steps Down for Onunkwo

By Praise Chinecherem

The race for the replacement of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for the Senate seat of Anambra South Senatorial zone has is finally becoming intense.

This is as one of the top aspirants for the ticket of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Sir Jude Emecheta on Thursday withdrew from the race.

Emecheta, the National Coordinator of a supporters group, Anambra Deserves Soludo (ADS), and former Managing Director of the Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency (ANSAA) disclosed this move during a strategy meeting with his supporters.

While stepping down from the senate race, Emecheta called on his teeming supporters to work for the victory of another aspirant of the party, Chief Ebuka Onunkwo during the primaries of the party for the ticket to contest for the Anambra South Senatorial District by-election.

Speaking at the meeting, Emecheta said: “Having checked the profiles of all the other APGA aspirants in the race for the Anambra South Senatorial by-election primaries, I found Chief Dr Ebuka Onunkwo as the most qualified candidate that the party.

“He is the one who really symbolizes what our party represents in terms of representative position. We should present for the senate race our very best, and I think that is what he represents.

“I want to tell you that they are people who are ready to finance my election, so money was not my problem. I just looked at the whole scenario and felt that I am from Ekwusigo, and Ebuka Onunkwo is also from Ekwusigo. Why should we be spending resources fighting each other, when indeed we should come together.

“Ebuka did not approach me to step down for him, I did this all by myself after thinking about it. Let us all support him because I know what he is capable of doing.”

With the latest development, Ebuka Onunkwo, an industrialist will have to face another another aspirant of the party, Chief Akai Egwuonwu in the battle for the ticket of APGA for the election.