Governorship aspirant of the Labour Party, LP, in Anambra guber tussle, Mr John Nwosu has rejected the primary election conducted by a faction of the party in Awka on Thursday.
Nwosu went into the election and lost to his opponent, Jude Umennajiego, a member representing Onitsha South 2 State constituency in the State House of Assembly.
Thursday’s primary election was regardless of a previous one conducted last weekend by a faction of the party loyal to ousted national chairman of the party, Julius Abure, which produced Dr George Moghalu as candidate.
Nwosu in a petition to the chairman of the Labour Party Primary Election Appeal Committee, Afam Ogene said the election was a sham, insisting that if the process was right, he would have been fielded as a lone aspirant, and returned as the candidate of the party.
He claimed that Umennajiego who the party gave its ticket was only a placeholder for another aspirant who did not want to openly show his face in the contest.
He said: “That process, if due process was followed, ought to have returned me as the winner, being the sole aspirant qualified to stand for the primary election referent to the Supreme Court judgement of the 4th day of April, 2025.
“Having upon request submitted my credentials to the Election Committee, the decision to name and install a placeholder is injurious to my interest and therefore unacceptable to me as there is no clear and present danger or to Labour Party in naming me as the candidate of our great Labour Party and sending my name to INEC accordingly.
“I am therefore filling this appeal requesting the reversal of these decision and according me natural justice equity and good conscience as the sole aspirant and winner of the Labour Party primary election held in Awka, Anambra State on the 10th of April 2025,” he said.
