A governorship aspirant of the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra State, John Nwosu, has rejected the reported emergence of Dr. George Moghalu as the party’s flagbearer for the upcoming November election.
In a statement issued by the Director General of the John Nwosu Campaign Organization, Ben Chuks Nwosu, the aspirant distanced himself from the party’s primary held on April 5 in Awka, where votes were reportedly allocated to him. He clarified that he had earlier withdrawn from the race due to irregularities in the compilation of the delegates’ list.
The statement read:
“The John Nwosu Campaign Organization has been made aware of the false allocation of votes to our principal, Mr. John Chuma Nwosu, during the Labour Party primary election held on April 5. Mr. Nwosu did not participate in that primary—neither in person nor by proxy.”
It continued, “The allocation of any votes to him is both misleading and dishonest, especially since he had officially withdrawn from the process, citing well-documented manipulations of the delegates list. The entire process lacked credibility, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling that removed Barr. Julius Abure as the National Chairman.”
According to the campaign, Nwosu had written to the removed chairman, Julius Abure, as well as the caretaker chairman, Nenadi Usman, and the primary election committee to formally withdraw. As such, portraying him as a participant or assigning him votes was baseless.
They urged LP members in Anambra, across Nigeria, and the general public to disregard what they called a deceptive attempt to lend credibility to an illegitimate process.
“The aim of this scheme,” the statement concluded, “was to lend a false sense of legitimacy to a process that, from its planning to execution, was fundamentally flawed and unjust.”