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Home » NATIONAL » Odengene Peoples Movement sheds light on Edeoga – Nnaji LP guber ticket feud

Odengene Peoples Movement sheds light on Edeoga – Nnaji LP guber ticket feud

by Jungle Journalist
August 31, 2022
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The Odengene People’s Movement, (OPM), the governorship campaign platform of Capt. Evarest Nnaji, has accused Hon. Chijioke Edeoga and his sponsors of desperation in their bid to foist himself as the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in Enugu state.

The campaign platform also accused Edeoga of cheaply and deliberately resorting to emotional blackmail and outright lies to mislead the public and attract undue sympathy in a matter he knew he was economical with the truth.

The campaign organization made the allegations while reacting to Edeoga’s claims in a radio progamme where he claimed he was the authentic governorship candidate of the Labour party in Enugu state.

According to the Director General of the campaign Organization, Hon. Okey Ezirigwe, Capt. Evarest Nnaji is not given to deceits or groomed in political chicanery which Edeoga, in his interview, boasted he well groomed in, hence his rude and unguarded grandstanding in the media against Nnaji’s well established integrity.

Ezirigwe described as tissue of lies, Edeoga’s claim that Nnaji begged him to concede the governorship ticket to him (Nnaji) and challenged Edeoga to explain the basis of such spurious claim, especially when both joined the party at the same time from PDP, where Edoga fully participated in the governorship primary election.

“The questions Edeoga should answer are: did Nnaji purchase the Labour Party gubernatorial expression of interest and nomination form or not, was he given a waiver after he met the party’s conditions for waiver, and did Nnaji fulfill the requirements for becoming the party’s flag bearer  or not , was Nnaji at any point disqualified from participating in the primaries he fully paid for and met all conditions to emerge the consensus candidate as contained in the party guidelines, how did he (Edoga) appear as the sole candidate as seen in the amateur videos from the purported primaries that ‘produced’ him and why was the kangaroo primaries secretly held in a beer parlour located at the back of his private residence, why is he afraid of a genuinely conducted and contested primaries if he trusted his eligibility and popularity?

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“The Labour Party has its peculiar guidelines for the conduct of its governorship primaries. In this regard, Capt. Evarest Nnaji fulfilled all the guidelines to emerge as a consensus candidate in an anticipated affirmative primary election. It was on that basis that the national leadership of the Labour party issued him with the INEC nomination form which he filled ” Ezirigwe said.

He described Edeoga’s allegation that Nnaji begged him to hand over the Enugu state governorship ticket of the Labour party to him (Nnaji) as a ridiculous false claim, indicative of Edeoga’s desperation that has exposed him to concoction of lies and half truths.

“What happened was that Capt. Nnaji took time to explain to Edeoga on the need for both of them to work with strategic concert and deliberate agreement instead of fighting dirty over the ticket like Edoga appear to be doing. In the first instance, Edeoga’s preferred interest was to contest for the Senate, but because his governorship quest was being driven by other narrow group interests which he owe allegiance and to which he confided in some persons was the  Nsukka General Assembly, an adhoc association of some few disgruntled, self-seeking  political gerontocrats from Enugu North Senatorial Zone, gathered mainly for the 2023 Enugu State governorship elections and intent to use Edeoga to return to power after years of perceived neglect. So, when it became obvious that Edeoga was under external influences, Capt. Nnaji suggested to him that they could both contest for the ticket but must avoid rancor in order to preserve and protect peace and unity of purpose within the Labour Party going into the general elections.

“There was this Pat Utomi-led meeting of the party stakeholders in Lagos that had all the party leaders and relevant stakeholders, TUC, NLC and all in attendance, wherein it was agreed the Labour Party has two governorship aspirants in Enugu state. It was agreed that primaries should be conducted for the two candidates, Nnaji and Edeoga. While Capt. Nnaji was waiting for the party to release a date for the primary election, Edeoga in what his quack technical advisers considered a smart maneuver, rushed and conducted a fake primary election in collusion with his old school mate who parade himself as the state chairman of the party in a beer palour right at the back of Edeoga’s house .

“The purported INEC officials who claimed to have observed the fake election did not emanate from Abuja and INEC had since put a disclaimer on them. The security agents who attended the purported primary election were proved not to have been officially assigned to observe the process and there was no official memo stating that the party had fixed a primary election between the two of Edeoga and Nnaji. If the party did, there is no way Nnaji would not be present and the venue would not have been in a beer bar located next to the home of Edeoga. Such a venue couldn’t  have been chosen by the party.

“Even the fake Labour Party members, mostly villagers from Eha-Amufu community where Edeoga hails from, who gathered  at  the kangaroo primary election as party delegates were picked up and driven in a hired yellow bus from where they converged at the Ugwogo-Nike Express road that leads to Eha-Amufu and Ikem to the secret venue of the charade, conducted by the self acclaimed state party chairman, one Casmir Agbo, who criminally announced Edeoga as the sole aspirant,” Ezirigwe stated.

On the allegation by Edeoga that Nnaji did not pay for the nomination form through his individual account, hence was not a candidate, Ezirigwe said it was laughable yet regretful coming from someone like him. He said that there is nothing in the law books that stops a third party from paying for a nomination Form for a chosen aspirant, more so, a candidate using his lawful private company account to purchase nomination form.

“In all his media onslaught and unprovoked tantrums from his social media recruits, our Principal, Capt. Evarest Nnaji has remained calm and collected, he is not at war with Edeoga, he is only interested in having the right thing done, he comes from a cooperate background where every process is guided by rules. He is not inclined to cutting corners like most career politicians, he has protested and submitted applications  to relevant organs and arm of government, including the party hierarchy, demanding that the process leading to the emergence of the party’s Governorship flag bearer should strictly follow the party guidelines, his application is receiving the deserved attention and soon, the proper thing would be done and seen to have been done.

“Therefore, we urge our brother Chijioke Edeoga, to stop heating up the party, we don’t need it here, we need to keep the peace in Enugu Labour Party and work together to ensure we make Enugu a fertile ground for the growth and unmitigated escalation of the OBIdient Bug catching the entire country. We are not fighting with Edeoga, there is no need to, this is a political process that has guideline, let him trust the process and submit himself to this guideline as Capt. Nnaji has done, making noise all over the place and recruiting thugs to disrupt events organized by Nnaji to promote the OBIdient movement at Home where Charity Begins are irresponsible and desperate acts that would not win him the ticket, let the process run its right course and whoever emerges, the other would honorably concede and work for the common good.”  Ezirigwe cautioned.

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