APC candidate battles 19 lawsuits

Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Governorship Candidate in Abia, said Sunday that 19 law suits were instituted against him in the aftermath of the party primary election.

Emenike said this at Okoko Item in Bende Local Government Area, when he unveiled his Deputy Governorship Candidate, Mrs Gloria Akara.

Akara is a legal practitioner of 40 years standing and pastor with God’s Heritage Ministry, Port Harcourt.

The APC standard bearer said that he had successfully disposed of 13 of the suits, leaving six pending.

“I am confident that by God’s grace, the remaining suits would be disposed of like the others,” he said.

He said that the party’s choice of a female deputy governorship candidate was to demonstrate that “it does not only talk about gender equality but practices it”.

He said that the emergence of a female deputy governor would help to end the era of “lootocracy” in governance in Abia.

According to him, Abia has not produced a female deputy governor, since the state was created in 1991.

The governorship hopeful said that he decided to pick his deputy from Ukwa to end many decades of the exclusion of the area from the central governance of Abia.

“It has always been my desire that Ukwa must be involved in the central executive governace,” he said.
He said that it was regrettable that the area had only been used as cannon fodder during war time but abandoned in peace time