Anambra poll: No imposition of candidates — Labour Party, APA

By Chris Ochayi &Vincent Ujumadu
ABUJA— THE Labour Party, LP, has promised to provide a level playing
ground for all aspirants jostling for the party's ticket in the
November 16, 2013, gubernatorial poll in Anambra State.
This came on a day Anambra State chairman of African Peoples Alliance,
APA, Mr. Chukwunonso Anadu, said the party would resist attempt by
anybodyto impose candidates on it.
National Chairman of LP, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, who said this in Abuja,
assured the aspirants that LP was a democratic party and would,
therefore,not impose any candidate on the people. He said the party's
candidate would emerge through a party primary, for which a date will
be announced in a due course.
Chief Nwanyanwu, who vowed that theparty will clinch the election in
Anambra State, said those dropping the name of President Goodluck
Jonathan ahead of the election would be disappointed because the party
was ready to make a difference.
The party chairman, who recently received a governorship aspirant for
the election, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, and hundreds of his supporters into
the party fold in Abuja, said LP will neutralise the influence of
godfatherism from the state's politics.
He said: "We have killed godfatherism in Edo and Ondo states. So for
anybody to think he can impose governor again in Anambra State, he is
day dreaming. We are going to bury it in Anambra in 2014. Those
banking on President Goodluck Jonathan should know that the president
won't vote; he will just provide security for the election, he
believes in rule of law."
The meeting also afforded Chief Ubah the opportunity to interact
formally with members of the National WorkingCommittee, NWC, of the
party.
He described Chief Ubah who recently joined the party, as a
philanthropist who had continued to put smiles on the faces of
ordinary citizens through his kerosene-direct programme that sold the
product at N50 per litre.