In the wake of the party primary election, 19 lawsuits were filed against Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) candidate for governor of Abia.
When he introduced Mrs. Gloria Akara, his deputy governorship candidate, Emenike said this at Okoko Item in the Bende Local Government Area.
Akara is a pastor at God’s Heritage Ministry in Port Harcourt and a lawyer with 40 years of experience.
According to the APC candidate, he successfully resolved 13 of the lawsuits, leaving six of them unresolved.
He claimed that the party chose a female candidate for deputy governor in order to show that “it not only talks about gender equality but practises it.”
He claimed that the election of a female deputy governor would contribute in ending the “lootocracy” that had previously characterised Abia’s rule.
Since the state’s creation in 1991, he claims, Abia has not produced a female deputy governor.
“I am confident that by God’s grace, the remaining suits would be disposed of like the others,” he said.
“It has always been my desire that Ukwa must be involved in the central executive governace,” he said.
He said that it was regrettable that the area had only been used as cannon fodder during war time but abandoned in peace time
