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Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Donchyke39(m): 10:07pm On Aug 28, 2013
It is no longer news that the leadership of People's Democratic Party (PDP) have dropped Senator Andy Uba  in favour of Tony Nwoye as their candidate for the November 16 governorship election in Anambra state. The National chairman of the (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, announced Nwoye as winner of the party’s primaries held

on Saturday, based on a report on the election submitted to the party’s leadership by Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema.

Tony Nwoye emerged from the primary election conducted by the Ken Emeakayi -led faction of the state’s PDP executive committee.



The question currently on the lips of many is: who is Tony Nwoye and who is he working for?

Mr Tony Nwoye was a former Medical student at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC). He dropped out in year three. Available information is that he was rusticated by the school authorities for cult activities. Mr Nwoye is a member of the notorious student cult organization. 

Upon being sent packing from UNEC, he ran to the College of Medicine, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki to continue his quest for medical studies.

While at Enugu campus, in 1998, Tony Nwoye [pictured] contested and won a seat to represent Medical Students at the university of Nigeria House of Representatives, Student Union. That same year, he was elected the Speaker of the Student Union House of Representatives making him the first medical student to hold that office in the history of UNN's Student Union Government. 

Between 2000 - 2004, Tony Nwoye became very prominent in the youth and student movement and on December, 2003, he was elected the National president, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). By that his election, Tony yet broke another record as the first Igbo student to hold that office till date since the inception of NANS.

Nigerian Universities remain the bastion of militarism and it is no secret that politicians recruit student cultists during the elections. Chris and Andy Ubah used Tony Nwoye to get members of the to work for them during Mbadinuju tenure in Anambra government government house. During this period and the 2007 gubernatorial contest in Anambra state, Mr Nwoye emerged as the chief thug for Mr Andy Ubah (Mkpiawa azu or ECOMOG for Andy Ubah, as he was then known). That election was won by Andy Ubah who then moved to fast-forward Nwoye’s political profile:

In 2005, Nwoye was elected the Assistant Secretary of PDP in Anambra State, a position he held till 2006. While holding that office, Andy Ubah moved him to occupy the vacant of the office of the State Chairman of PDP in Anambra State. He assumed the office of the State Chairman of PDP from 2006-2009 and worked assiduously for the interest of Andy Ubah in PDP in the 2007 general elections. 

In 2010, he contested and claimed to have won the seat to represent Anambra East/West Federal Constituency at the National Assembly but his Certificate of Return was issued to another person. 

He went to court to challenge the action and won on July, 13th 2011, court declared him as the winner of the 2011 general election into Anambra Eats/West Federal Constituency. However, he was not allowed to take his seat in the House by Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal despite being issued with a Certificate of Return by INEC on 16th July, 2012.

Mr Nwoye blamed his predicament on Andy Ubah whom he had fallen out with. The source of their quarrel was not revealed butTony immediately sought succor with the Business Mogul, Chief Arthur Eze; President Jonathan’s Man Friday in Anambra State.

“When I was running Andy's campaign in 2007, Tony was like the head of our ECOMOG having been a campus cult kingpin” said Uche Ezechukwu, a prominent journalist.

“He dropped out of 3rd year medicine at UNN. He was an Andy Ubah invention, but today, he has become Andy's nemesis with a lot of funding from Arthur Eze”, Mr Ezechukwu told elombah.com.

Elombah.com learnt that Arthur Eze [PICTURED ABOVE] gave each delegate to the PDP Primary N200,000 to vote for Tony Nwoye. In that primary conducted by Ken Emeakayi faction, Nwoye scored 498 votes to beat Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu who scored 357 votes. Dr. Alex Obiogolu came third with 13 votes. According to Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema who was the chairman of a five-man Anambra governorship congress committee set up the PDP to conduct the election, 14 aspirants participated in the congress in which 916 delegates voted.

A friend of Nwoye wrote this about PDP candidate: “Comrade Tony Nwoye is not only a mafian, he's also a magician. If he flies PDP flag at the election, APGA will need a miracle to defeat him. Talk of rigging, he will out rig. Talk of thuggery, he will out thug. Talk of maneuvering, he will out-maneuver. He's not a cultist but he controls capons. Aah! Tony Nwoye? Ayaka Nsugbe!! Former NANS President, Former Anambra State PDP Chairman. Fear himmm!”

Before the Anambra PDP screening, elombah.com received a strongly worded petition forwarded to Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi , Chairman, PDP Screening Appeals Committee, PDP National Secretariat, Zone 5, Abuja.

The petition signed by Kevin obi, of Ward 8, Agu Awka, PDP AWKA said in part:

SCREENING OF ASPIRANTS FOR NOVEMBER 16 ANAMBRA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS

RE: TONY NWOYE 

I am writing first to commend our party, PDP, for the marvelous efforts being made to sanitize, revitalize and reunite our party, and so reclaim Anambra State.

Let me particularly commend the Ambassador Wali-led Screening Committee, for their excellent job, which provided a level playing field for all the aspirants to compete without fear or favour. This singular act shook the Nation, and has the opposition sweating: “PDP is finally getting its act together”, they say.

We are hoping that the Appeals Committee, led by you, Sir, Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, would tow the same line of discipline. Let us quickly alert you to the following:

1.Did Tony Nwoye present a degree certificate?

2.If yes, is the degree valid?

3.If yes, did he do the mandatory Youth Service?

4.If he was found not to have paid his taxes as and when due, only last Thursday,

How can he correct that without cooking up some tax papers from inside? Is he going to reset the clock?

Sir your Committee should tread carefully, so as not to bring Ambassador Wali into disrepute. His Excellency is a respected Nigerian renowned for his integrity, and is one of our PDP Founding Fathers, a man who is not given to vanity. Disqualification should mean disqualification.

We wish to use this medium to also alert:

1.The National Chairman

2.The BOT Chairman

3.Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi-led Team

4.ANY OTHER PERSON OR PARTY CONCERNED,

To the sensitivities involved in this matter, and to urge you to refrain/desist from GIVING or TAKING any BRIBE, and to shun all forms of MANIPULATIONS in favour of TONY NWOYE or indeed any other Aspirant.

There are at least 13 other Candidates for now, and we are NEVER going to allow any such Favouritism or God-Fatherism to ruin and wipe out the tremendous gains we have made in this party. ANAMBRA ELECTION IS OUR CHANCE TO BOUNCE BACK.

We are therefore WATCHING, ready to CRY FOUL. If you take bribe or are coerced into sweeping the irregularities in Tony Nwoye’s documentation under the carpet, note that the opposition is also watching and waiting for any Legal Loopholes. They are ready to uncover any skeletons we choose to hide in the closet so that when we must have won the election, they will go to court and claim the seat again.

Note that I am not fighting for any candidate of my choice. Let the elections be CLEAN. Period. Let us put our personal interests aside and move our democracy forward because we are the ruling Party.

BE WISE. BE WARNED. SAY NO

The petition concluded.

ANDY UBAH

Elombah.com learnt that Tony Nwoye was initially screened out following grave discrepancies and forgeries discovered in his nomination form. We will publish details of those forgery in the second part of this article.

How Tony Nwoye later surmounted the initial rejection has been attributed to Chief Arthur Eze and the anti-Obasanjo elements in PDP who hated the idea of Andy Ubah’s candidacy. Ubah was a former domestic aide to former president Olusegun Obasanjo. It is open secret that Obasanjo is not favourably disposed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential ambition. 

“Andy Ubah lost out because of his closeness to Obasanjo”, a PDP stalwart told elombah.com.

On Tony Nwoye’s chances in the November Anambra guber contest, Uche Ezechukwu said: “he will have no chance at the elections, even with any type of rigging. Money can only take you far, but not all the way”

Comrade Tony Okechukwu Nwoye (as he prefers to be addressed) was born to the family of Chief Lawrence and Mrs. Christiana Nwoye of Offiantta Village, Nsugbe in Anambra East Local Government of Anambra State. He was born, a twin, (twin is Earnest Nwoye) on the 13th September, 1974 as the 4th child in Chief Lawrence Nwoye's family at Waterside Hospital, Onitsha .
In the pic :Arthur Eze,Tony Nwoye and Andy Uba respectively.
http://www.elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/17417-revealed-how-arthur-eze-used-tony-nwoye-to-spite-andy-ubah-nwoye-s-criminality-exposed

Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by FilesUpdator(f): 10:09pm On Aug 28, 2013
Don't they get tired? undecided
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by iphy42: 10:16pm On Aug 28, 2013
Hmmmm, o dikwa very risky
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by macjive01: 10:24pm On Aug 28, 2013
so people will compare this common tout to SOLUDO.

SOLUDA ABEG FLOAT YOUR OWN PARTY IF APGA / COURT NO GREE REVERSE THEIR JUDGEMENT
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Nobody: 10:32pm On Aug 28, 2013
Its a pity that Money,Cultism,Fetishsm
Godfatherism and Deadly Arm-Twisting have always been the lot of politicians in Anambra

A state so rich in men(women) of unimpeachable sagacity and uncommon success yet doesn't always get it right when it comes to politics and good governance
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Nobody: 11:08pm On Aug 28, 2013
So, this is the kind of person Jonathan wants to be the governor of Anambra state? A bloody cultist and thug? Oh! what a shame!!
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by asha80(m): 11:17pm On Aug 28, 2013
berem: So, this is the kind of person Jonathan wants to be the governor of Anambra state? A bloody cultist and thug? Oh! what a shame!!
him or uba?i thought the sahara story was that jonathan favoured uba?
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Nobody: 11:39pm On Aug 28, 2013
asha 80: him or uba?i thought the sahara story was that jonathan favoured uba?
that was the initial thought, but, Tony Nwonye was given the certificate to run for the election on PDP platform. too bad!!
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by asha80(m): 11:48pm On Aug 28, 2013
berem: that was the initial thought, but, Tony Nwonye was given the certificate to run for the election on PDP platform. too bad!!
a court in ph has upheld andy uba as the pdp candidate and has told pdp to respect that....meaning that sahara story was not well researched or a figment of the writer's imagination.
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Nobody: 1:16am On Aug 29, 2013
It would have been a brilliantly piece of journalistic research if not for the part about him being a cultist.Tony Nwoye was never a cultist.He has never been.

He had some issues in school but it was never cult related.He was never rusticated from school because of cultism.
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Ikengawo: 3:08am On Aug 29, 2013
Nigerians are too open minded


this man doesn't look like he sells children in italy?


www.nairaland.com/attachments/1276255_arthur_jpg88e0f7c59aca4e2136e46508eda61dcf
god forbid he wins, the uglier the politician the worst the corruption.
Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by Omen100(m): 6:21am On Aug 29, 2013
Ebele desperation is going to shake the very foundation of our existence as Nation but then, who cares?

Re: Revealed: How Arthur Eze Used Tony Nwoye To Spite Andy Ubah…nwoye’s Criminality by stitcheD(m): 7:15am On Aug 29, 2013
gbosaa: It would have been a brilliantly piece of journalistic research if not for the part about him being a cultist.Tony Nwoye was never a cultist.He has never been.

He had some issues in school but it was never cult related.He was never rusticated from school because of cultism.
Yes you were right. He was not allowed to continue because he failed his 2nd professional degree exam, which could happen to anybody. But he was and still remains an astute politician. Story was then that he was failed because of his political activities. He was never rusticated

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