The former aviation minister who was sacked in February 2014 for
purchasing two BMW cars at a highly-inflated price has failed to make the list
of People’s Democratic Party senatorial candidates, the list released on
Tuesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shows Ms.
Oduah, after failing to capture the Anambra North Senatorial seat, had used
Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Federal Government, to intimidate INEC to get
her name into the list.
That plan failed, as INEC released the name of
John Okechuckwu Emeka as the court-ordered candidate of the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) for the seat. Also removed from the list is Andy Uba, a former
domestic aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was replaced with his
equally controversial younger brother, Chris Uba as the PDP candidate for
Anambra South in the forthcoming general election. Chris Uba, it would be
recalled, confessed to having rigged the 2003 gubernatorial election in the
state, in favour of Chris Ngige.
Andy Uba and Ms. Oduah had been
anointed by President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, to clinch the
senatorial slots, but they both lost in last month’s state party primaries.
Since that defeat, Ms. Oduah has been conniving with lawyers, some judges and
SGF Anyim to impose her name on INEC, in a political no-man’s-land where
integrity has no meaning.
This woman should rest.
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