Capt Emma Iheanacho
UPP Elects Okorie As Presidential Candidate
THE leadership of the Imo state chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has dismissed reports that there were parallel primary elections in the state, which produced two candidates, Capt Emma Iheanacho and Mr. Okey Ezeh emerged.
Briefing journalists yesterday, the state Chairman of the party, Peter Ezeobi, a lawyer, said emphatically that the only governorship primary election recognized and held in the state which all the executive members state recognized, was that held at the Rosy Arts Theatre, Ikenegbu Layout, Owerri.
He said that the immediate past Minister of Interior, Capt Emma Iheanacho won with 972 votes against the second aspirant, Mr. Okey Ezeh, adding that the third position went to Mazi Okechukwu Unegbu, who polled three votes.
Iheanacho also told journalists not to believe any such information. He said that he had received all the blessings of the leadership of the party in the state.
Meanwhile, at the maiden national convention of the United Progressive Party (UPP) held at Aba, Abia state on Thursday and Friday, the party’s national Chairman and national Secretary Chief Chekwas Okorie and Bello Umar were respectively elected as its Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates for the 2015 election.
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