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By Madu Obi
The race for the replacement of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for the Senate seat of Anambra South Senatorial zone has been intensified with one of the frontline aspirants on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Jude Emecheta announcing his withdrawal in favour of an industrialist,Chief Ebuka Onunkwo.
Emecheta, who was the national coordinator of one of Governor Chukwuma Soludo's, Anambra Deserves Soludo (ADS), and former Managing Director of the Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency (ANSAA) announced the withdrawal 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 Chief Ebuka Onunkwo during the primaries of the party for the Senatorial by-election.
Emecheta said at the meeting: "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 will face another aspirant of the party, Chief Akai Egwuonwu in the battle for the ticket of APGA for the election.
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