The National Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has received the reports and recommendations of the Anambra governorship appeal committee headed by the Gombe state governor, Inuwa Yahaya.
Reports gathered that after days of deliberations, the appeal committee upheld the candidacy of Senator Andy Uba while outrightly dismissing all the petitions challenging his emergence.
The APC governorship primary election held in Anambra on the 26th of June with Senator Uba emerging as winner, had about ten out of fourteen aspirants challenging the outcome of the election.
A senior party member who pleaded anonymity, Monday confirmed to our source that governor Yahaya’s appeal committee upheld the Anambra governorship primary election which produced Andy Uba as party candidate but revealed that all the aggrieved aspirants are scheduled to meet with Mr. President within the week to further wade into the matter.
While receiving the report Monday at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, Yobe state governor Mai Mala Buni, represented by the national secretary Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, said the caretaker committee will look critically with objectivity to the report and do what’s right by party’s constitution.
The governor of Gombe state while answering questions from newsmen stated that Virtually all the aggrieved aspirants attended the meeting. He further stated that Even senior stakeholders from the South-east particularly from Anambra state were all present through the whole process and assured that the Activities of the appeal committee were transparently conducted and that the aggrieved aspirants should join hands together and support the party’s candidate for the forth coming election.
