Maduako Igbokwe l Tuesday, February 7, 2023
NNEWI, Anambra – Two brothers from Nnewi town, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of Young Progressive Party (YPP) and Chief Chris Azubogu of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) are fighting dirty over who represent Anambra South at the Senate.
Ubah is the candidate of YPP for Anambra south Senatorial District and Azubogu is the candidate of APGA for the same senatorial District.
The political war between the two brothers is getting messier as the duo take each other to the cleaners over the alleged endorsement by Nnewi Community in Nnewi North local government area of Anambra state. Senator Ubah is claiming that his Nnewi Community has endorsed him as its sole candidate while Azubogu is contending that Ubah is deceiving the public.
According to Azubogu, Ubah’s claims is highly fallacious, noting that their community has never endorsed anyone. Azubogu is from Umudim village while Ubah is from Otolo village in the same Nnewi town. Their dirty politcal fight has created a strong division in the town
Meanwhile, Azubogu had accused Senator Ubah of sponsoring the court case that earlier disqualified him from being candidate of APGA for Anambra south Senatorial election.
According to him, it is his inalienable right to contest for the Senate position of the Senatorial District and Ubah cannot stop him. He denied receiving the sum of N100 million from Ubah to step down for him to contest the gubernatorial seat of Anambra in 2017.
“Nobody endorsed Ifeanyi Ubah for the Senatorial seat of Anambra South District and Nzukora Nnewi never did that and this is the style of Ifeanyi Ubah who has continued to peddle lies and falsehood”
“In 2017 before the then President Good luck Jonathan I was told to allow Ubah to go for the governorship ticket of our former party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party PDP and I accepted but he lost the ticket and started supporting Chief Willie Obiano for governorship”
“Then he later came up with the allegation that he gave me the sum of N100 million and there was an agreement on the subject matter but I have witnesses as our brothers Chief Olisa Metuh and Mr Ikechukwu Ibeto were at Chief Ibeto”s House and there was no such thing like N100 million”
“Go and ask his lawyer a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who he gave papers to give to me to sign if I ever signed any document concerning that. This is how he goes about deceiving and lying against people.
“He has been sponsoring Ben Nwankwo at the Federal High Court to disqualify me from contesting the Senatorial election under APGA and now that I have won the case via the Court of Appeal he has introduced endorsement and the issue of agreement with N100 million” he said.
But Senator Ifeanyi Ubah through his Media Assistant Mr Kameh Ogbonna dismissed the claimed of Azubogu noting that the apex body of Nnewi town, Nzukora Nnewi has endorsed Ubah.
According to him, this is Azubogu’s stock in trade at every election period and because he had lost out in Nnewi he decided to be creating confusion and causing trouble like he did at the last Town Hall meeting of Nnewi people recently.
“At a town hall meeting where members of Nzukora Nnewi were in attendant, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was there as the only Senatorial candidate from Nnewi town and Azubogu came in latter and they told him that he was not invited and he got angry and started hitting his hand on the table.
“Everyone present said that the accepted candidate from Nnewi is Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and he got angry and bolted out and he was booed and that was how Senator Ubah was endorsed by his people.
“The allegation of sponsoring Ben Nwankwo against him is his usual way of causing trouble and he knows that he cannot win the election” he said. When contacted the President General of Nzukora Nnewi Dr Maduka Atuenyi said that the body has nothing to do with politics and should not be dragged into the matter.
“Please first of all, this body Nzukora Nnewi is a socio-cultural organization that has nothing to do with politics and we do not need to be dragged into this matter for any reason whatsoever”
“Nzukora Nnewi wishes to be left out of this their fight because we are not the body to endorse any candidate and it doesn’t fall within the reason the organization was formed, so we cannot comment on this matter” he said.
