Anambra LG polls: APC calls for Soludo’s resignation
The All Progressives Congress in Anambra State has asked Governor Chukwuma Soludo to resign following his inability to conduct elections in the 21 local government areas of the state since he assumed office over one year ago.
The party also added that the Federal Government should appoint a “caretaker governor” to run the affairs of the state, according to a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary, Okelo Madukaife, on Wednesday.
Both the APC and the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance in Anambra have been tackling each other over the non-conduct of LG elections in the state since 2014.
Madukaife pointed out that since 1999 when democracy returned to the country, Anambra State had only organised two local government elections, and that was during the early days of Late Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju’s administration and towards the end of Peter Obi’s administration in 2014.
The state chairman of APGA, Mr Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, had in an interview recently, cited a “litany of litigation” at the courts as the reason preventing the state from holding LG elections.
But in the statement, Madukaife asked the Anambra people and the general public to critically engage the APGA party on the issues concerning the Anambra State local governments.
The statement read, “Obi-Okoye cites an apex court judgement that, according to him, empowers Anambra State Government to appoint caretaker committees while on the other, he says the case is pending and no one has taken him up for the glaring contradiction.
“Interestingly, this is coming from a party that ignored specific court orders to hold its conversation without worrying about the implications, only to invoke uncited and unreferenced cases stopping LG elections.
“We are interested in saving Anambra LGs from the state government and allowing our people to feel the impact of government at the grassroots rather than being treated to vocabularies from Awka. “If Soludo insists on defending the lack of democratic governments in Anambra LGs directly or in proxy, a full year after the time he gave to hold elections has passed, he should resign as governor to enable President Bola Tinubu to appoint a Caretaker governor for Anambra State and later find a legal justification for it.
“Ndi Anambra should be prepared to reclaim their right to elect their leaders after 24 years of continuous rape, 17 of which have been executed by APGA,” the statement added. Punch
