….says she was schemed out of the election
As parties conduct primaries for the November Governorship election in Imo state, the All Peoples Grand Alliance APGA, governorship aspirant, Dr Ngozi Aririgozu has lamented over her sudden disqualification from contesting for the primaries.
The Guber Aspirant while addressing the press when they visited the party office, the supposed venue of the election and discovered that the party office was in disarray, Dr Ngozi Aririgozu who was visibly aggreived Said she picked the nomination form to the tone of 7.5 million and she agreed to add another 2.5 million after been told that another aspirant has purchased the form before her, she was waiting for the screening process but was never invited by the National working committee for the screening till the eve of the primaries when she was told by the party’s National publicity Secretary Ifeanyi Mbaeri that the waiver she applied for was not successful which she said was not officially declared to her by the party.
Aririgozu, a one time publicity Secretary of APGA and a former commissioner in Imo state, said she has experience in governance and has the capability to lead Imo state and wonders she was been disqualified from participating in the primaries.
She noted that her coming into the party even made lots of people from other parties decamp to APGA .
On the contrary, the election was ongoing at another venue that wasn’t communicated to the aspirant.
The aspirant however says she is still in the race and will seek redress If someone is declared winner.
The state chairman of the party John Iwuala while speaking with the press claims to be unaware about the election been conducted elsewhere and told newsmen that he has no hand in the plight of the aspirant as no political party gives the chairman the authority to conduct elections.
However he blamed the National working committee of the party for faluire to handle the matter in an amicable way. He noted that the two aspirants should have been invited for a peaceful resolution before the conduct of the primaries and further adviced the National body to give room for free and fair elections instead of disrupting the process.
