… Cede House of Assembly seat to Zone 2
Stakeholders in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Saturday May 21, 2022 unanimously agreed that it is the turn of Zone 2 to produce a candidate to represent the constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly come 2023.
It will be recalled that Idemili South Local Government Area is dividend into three geopolitical zones to ensure fairness, equity and justice in the distribution of political offices and appointments in the local government on rotational basis.
During the meeting which held at Ojoto, there were heated debate over which of the three zones existing in the local government should produce a candidate for the Idemili South state constituency seat in the next political dispensation.
Although some of the stakeholders, for reasons best known to them, denied knowledge of any zoning arrangement in existence in the local government insisting that the contest for Idemili South state constituency seat had always been open for any Idemili South son or daughter to contest.
However, after much deliberations, the stakeholders present at the meeting unanimously insisted on zoning pointing out that it was the turn of Zone 2 to produce the next candidate(s) for Idemili South state constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly come 2023.
While adding that the three communities that made up Zone 2 namely: Ojoto, Oba and Akwukwu were expected to field candidates based on the zoning formula of the party, stakeholders, however, specifically pinned down Akwukwu community as the community whose turn it was to produce the next candidate for Idemili South State Constituency as Ojoto had taken its turn in the person of Mr. Tony Uche who was elected as a House of Assembly Member under Mr. Peter Obi administration.
The stakeholders further resolved that they won’t stop anybody nursing ambition to run for the State Assembly seat but advised those aspiring for the seat to obey the party structure and respect the zoning formula as agreed by the stakeholders as according to them, it had enhanced equity and understanding among different communities in the local government.
They maintained that whosoever
disobeyed the resolution was disobeying the party structure as well as trying to destroy the zoning arrangement already agreed upon by the stakeholders in the local government which many, according to them, had benefited from in the past.
The stakeholders, therefore, warned that if any candidate from any other zone other than Zone 2 emerged the flag bearer of APGA for Idemili South state constituency, such a candidate would lose the election if any other party picked a candidate from Zone 2.
They insisted that they cannot afford to toy with the zoning arrangement put in place since the creation of the local government which had ensured fairness, equity and justice in the local government.
The meeting had major stakeholders including the contestants for the Idemili South state constituency seat in the party namely: Frank Chinyeluba, Okigbo, Engr. Ugochukwu Chukwukelu, Engr. Azubuike Emmanuel Umeadi, Barr. Igwe Chukwuebuka and Obijekwu Gozie.
Other stakeholders present at the meeting included: Prince Henry Ezenwa, Ikenna Iyiegbu, Joe Igbokwe, Uche Annie Okonkwo among others.
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