Anambra 2025: I never took part in the so-called LP primary - John Nwosu *Dismisses emergence of Moghalu as candidate

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By Madu Obi

An aspirant of Labour Party (LP) in the Anambra State governorship election, Mr John Nwosu has said that he never participated in the party's primary election that produced Chief George Moghalu as the candidate of the party for the November 8 poll.

The Director General of John Nwosu Campaign Organization, Hon Ben Chuks Nwosu wondered why votes were allocated to his principal, having previously stepped down from the race as a result of irregularities in the compilation of delegates' list.

According to him, Nwosu chose to withdraw from the race because the election lacked legitimacy in the teeth of the intent and meaning of the Supreme Court judgment sacking the national chairman, Mr. Julius Abure, and dismissed Moghalu as the candidate of LP.

He said his principal wrote both the sacked national chairman, Julius Abure, and the caretaker chairman, Nenadi Usman, including the primary election committee, adding that there was no locus for them to have portrayed him as participating in the election or even allocating votes to him.

The press release read in part: "The attention of John Nwosu Campaign Organization has been drawn to the purported allocation of some votes to our principal Mr. John Chuma Nwosu at the 5th April Labour Party primary election, in which he did not participate in person or by proxy.

Accordingly, it is patently mischievous for the organizers of the purported election to allocate any number of votes purportedly cast by delegates to Mr. John Chuma Nwosu who had withdrawn from the primary election because of cogent and verifiable series of manipulations of the delegates list.

We advise all members of Labour Party in Anambra State, nationwide and all citizens of Nigeria, who it may concern, to disregard this subterfuge allocation of any number of votes to Mr. John Chuma Nwosu who withdrew from the purported primary election.

We know that the motive was to accord the farce the modicum of legitimacy it lacked from its organization, to its obtuse execution."