|
Abia PDP guber ticket
Gov Orji on shaky ground –Emenike
•Vows to pursue case to Supreme Court
From CHUKS ONUOHA, Umuahia
Wednesday,
March 9, 2011
Parallel Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate
in Abia State, High Chief Ikechi Emenike, says that Governor Theodore
Orji, who was recently pronounced by the High Court as the authentic
candidate of the party to next month’s election is still standing
on shaky ground. Emenike said this is because he has yet to give
up on his desire to fly the PDP’s flag and has since filed
notice of appeal on the verdict.
He stated this in his country home in an interaction with Daily
Sun, the first since he came back from Abuja where he had gone to
pursue his case. Emenike had earlier addressed thousands of supporters
who thronged the airport to receive him on his return since after
the court ruling.
Emenike said his case is further enhanced by the fact that Governor
Orji allegedly did not have a PDP membership card when he was asked
to produce one at the court in Abuja.
He insisted that the Abuja High Court which gave a favourable verdict
to the governor erredfrom every angle and that it would not stand
as he is hopeful it would be overturned at appeal.
According to him, the struggle for the soul of PDP in the state
had just started as he was determined to pursue the matter to the
Supreme Court.
“There is no way you can ask somebody who did not have a party
card to be candidate of a party .The Abuja judgment is very faulty
from every angle. It will not stand. There is no way you can ask
somebody who is a party member, who does not have party card to
be. He has no party card. They know that they are standing on a
shaky foundation, Emenike said .
He noted that “the judgment is conspicuous on what it did
not touch, and that is the ground of appeal. Even if they win at
the appeal, we will go to the Supreme Court. This is the beginning
of the matter. Ultimately, the truth will surface because justice
will prevail,” he intoned.
Emenike said that before he embarked on his governorship ambition,
he asked his lawyer to write the Independent National Electoral
Commission[INEC] to confirm (which the commission confirmed to the
Ben Etie-led Group) who was the authentic PDP faction leader in
the state. Based on the INEC’s advice, he bought forms from
the said authentic list of the Abia PDP leadership which he said
was the one that returned him.
He explained further that INEC position was communicated in writing
and that he would make the letter available at the appropriate time.
For the above reasons, Emenike stated that the battle is far from
being over. “This is just the beginning as we are going to
follow it to a logical conclusion.
“They know that they are standing on a shaky foundation. We
are very determined and we are very certain that if the judicial
system is still what we know, we will triumph. I have gotten to
the level that I can’t be intimidated.
They are still destroying my posters and billboards. The President
like all others is against violence and I hope he will like us to
resolve it legitimately”.
On whether the PDP reconciliation committee headed by Senator Ike
Nwachukwu has visited him, Emenike said there there was nothing
like PDP reconciliation committee, but that a commtiittee was set
up by Governor Orji which he tagged: “a wing of his T.A Orji’s
campaign members. If there is anything like reconciliation committee
,it was set up by all of them sitting together and made it clear
that he did not want to see the committee members or their leaders.
On whether he has any pact with former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu,
Emenike laughed and dismissed same with a wave of the hand, adding
that he has no quarrels with the former governor, but that there
is no pact.
“In the last four years, I have met Kalu only once in a flight.
That was during the Anambra elections last year. We were going to
Anambra State. He was going to support his candidate and I was going
to support my own candidate, Soludo. I don’t have any problem
meeting with Orji. That is to say that if I meet Orji or Akomas
or Ufomba or Ikonne, we will greet. We are not enemies. But I have
not had any meeting with Kalu, and there is no reason for that unless
he joins PDP”.
He assured his supporters, that despite what the eyes can see now
, they should still vote PDP, whether his picture is there or not.
“We know where to collect our victory. The only disservice
you will do to this state is not to vote PDP in the forthcoming
election because if you do that, you would have made God who asked
us to come out a liar. But I want to assure you that God is too
truthful to support a lie. If we had been pursuing an unjust cause,
he would have departed from us since, but you can see that God is
still with us,” Emenike said.
He said that “ultimately, truth would overshadow falsehood
as every evil has its expiry date. We can do things right in this
21st Century and we should be part of things that are done rightly”,
he said He noted that even though he was being subjected to malicious
attacks by agents of the state government, who have also been defacing
and removing his campaign posters and billboards, that he is wondering
why a people who want to govern others should descend so low in
a contest meant to bring out the best to serve the people.
He noted that he was not given to bread-and-butter politics and
that if people are contesting for the same seat, it doesn’t
make them enemies.
Efforts made by Daily Sun to speak to the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Print Media, Mr Ugochukwu Emezuo, was unfruitful as
he refused to pick his phone after it rang five times.
How
to Give Your Woman Earth-Shaking Orgasms. Click Here!
Make
N450,000 Online Monthly. Click Here
Earn
$1,000 weekly, online workers
needed worldwide. Download free e-book
Cure Premature Ejaculation Fast.
No Pills, No Herbs. 100% Natural
|
