2015: Umeh Declares for Anambra Central
Senatorial Seat


The National Chairman of All Progressives
Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh,
has joined the race for the Anambra Central
senatorial seat in the 2015 general election.
The seat is currently occupied by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in
the November 16, 2013 governorship
election in Anambra State, Senator Chris
Ngige.
By his formal declaration at the launch of
APGA solidarity movement in Awka, Umeh is
thus challenging the incumbent senator for
the zone, Ngige, who is widely believed to
be eyeing the seat again after his failed bid
to win the state governorship election last
year and two other aspirants in the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the zone, Chief
Kodilichukwu Okelekwe and Senator Annie
Okonkwo who recently defected from the
APC to his original party, the PDP citing lack
of internal democracy in the APC.
But Umeh said yesterday that he was
throwing his hat into the ring and would
definitely emerge victorious.
“I will win. I have been stopping them in
the past and this time around I want to
stop them in the senate race
“And because of your invitation for me to
join the race today (yesterday), I am now
joining to stop them again. God willing, I
have put my hat in the ring and we shall go
to the battlefield and I will emerge
victorious.
“Go and tell them that I have stepped out
for the Anambra Central senatorial seat and
with all of you here working with me, we
are going to give them a crushing defeat,”
he said before an assemblage of Anambra
people who gathered for the inauguration
of APGA solidarity movement in the state
which also coincided with the celebration
of his 52nd birthday.
Earlier, before the movement was
inaugurated by the state Chairman of APGA,
Chief Mike Kwentoh, its president, Hon.
Ebere Okafor, had said the movement
started way back in 2012 as APGA Solidarity
Forum and had worked hard to deliver a lot
of candidates who won various elective
positions.
The vision of the movement, he said, was to
ensure that by working hard, more
candidates under the party’s platform
would win more elective positions in 2015
and beyond both in Anambra and other
states.