The All Progressives Congress(APC) committee for Anambra 2017 governorship election led by Senator Jim Nwobodo has begun screening of aspirants on the party’s platform.
DAILY POST gathered that the screening exercise which ran late into the night on Wednesday witnessed attendance from 10 aspirants of the party at the Awkunanaw country home of the chairman of the committee, Senator Nwobodo.
The former governor who spoke with journalists after the exercise said that all aspirants on the party’s platform have been confirmed qualified for the job, but stated that only one person will emerge, and that his committee was working hard to get them to eschew bitterness and rancor but embrace love, loyalty and peace.
Nwobodo disclosed that regular meeting was a continued process the committee needed to inculcate closeness in the aspirants to see the contest as part of life’s processes that could work out or otherwise.
He said the committee needed all the aspirants to see the other as brothers and be positively disposed to supporting whoever among them that eventually emerges victorious.
He assured that, “We are not going to impose any candidate on the party; they will have a level playing ground.
“My advice to the aspirants is for them to cooperate and allow one of them to win at the November 18 governorship election than to allow the opponents from another party to win.”
He said the APC primaries would come up any moment the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) gives approval to the request letter it had written her.
One of the aspirants, and a top contender for the ticket of the party, Chief George Moghalu noted that bringing the aspirants under one roof and engineering a parley among them was a mark of a responsible political party.
He expressed satisfaction with the committee’s commitment and efforts to see APC takes over the Awka Government House in the Nov 18 poll.
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