Enugu gov poll: Nsukka biz community begs APC candidate to accept election result

The Allied Business Community at Nsukka has called on the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the April 11 election, Barr. Okey Ezea, to accept the outcome of the exercise in good faith.They pleaded with politicians in the state to take a cue from President Goodluck Jonathan who lost as an incumbent President but did not hesitate to concede defeat.

The group, which made its position known at a press briefing in Enugu, yesterday, was speaking in apparent reference to Ezea’s insistence to challenge the result at the election tribunal.

It would be recalled that Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was declared winner of the governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

However, the president of the Allied Business Community, Mr. Augustine Okagu, who addressed journalists alongside the organisation’s secretary and one of its patrons, Ojobo Godwin and Theophilus Nzuteigbo, respectively, urged Ezea to bury the hatchet and partner with Ugwuanyi to move the state forward.

Okagu said: “Now that the election is over and a winner has emerged, we congratulate Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the PDP and equally ask our brother, Okey Ezea, to accept the outcome in the interest of our state.

“We have no doubt in Ugwuanyi’s ability to justify the mandate that has been given to him by the people of Enugu State.”

source;Vanguard