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Ahead of Anambra gubernatorial election, the National Chairman of Labour Party (LP) Barrister Julius Abure has assured the two aspirants in the April 5 primary of a level-playing ground.
He gave the assurance on Thursday while receiving the nomination and expression of interest forms of Dr. George Moghalu at the party’s national Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
Abure noted that inability of major political parties to allow contestation and internal democracy have denied the country to the best candidates to occupy offices.
He maintained that the Labour Party had resolved to change the narrative by ensuring that due process is followed for the emergence of any of its candidates.
He said: “For us in Labour Party we are determined to change that narrative, to change the trajectory and we want to assure the aspirant that our own primary for the Anambra governorship election is going to be free, fair and credible.
“I want you to take it to the bank, that it is the people of Anambra State and more precisely, Labour Party members that will be the determinant of who flies the party ticket.
“I want to say without any equivocation or contradiction and want to be challenged with the statement that there will not be godfatherism and we have no anointed aspirant and the process will not be skewed towards an aspirant and I assure again that the process will be free, fair and credible.”
Abure appealed to the aspirant to do the needful by continuing to sell himself, endear himself to the people, especially members of the party responsible for electing the candidate.
Before submitting the N30 million nomination and expression of interest forms, the frontline aspirant and immediate Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), George Moghalu said he was in the race to change the trajectory of the state.
The former National Auditor of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who decamped to LP last year, lamented despite the vast potentials of the state, it has not been able to attain the desired state.
According to him: “Anambra state is blessed state with all its potentials, but we are not where the state should be now. We need to rejig the leadership. This exactly is the force behind my ambition.”
Assuring that he would not disappoint the party leadership if he wins the ticket, Moghalu said: “Mr. Chairman and your team, I assure you, I will not let you down. I am going into this race, the governorship of our state with the determination to win the election and we shall win by the grace of God.
“Giving the opportunity to fly the flag of our party, provides us with the opportunity to have a state we can call our own.”
