The Action Democratic Congress, ADC governorship candidate in Abia State, Bishop Sunday Onuoha has beaten 9 others from Abia North to emerge as the zone’s consensus candidate.
In a screening of the 10 candidates from the Abia North who are contesting, a political organization from the area, Abia North Political Project, ANPP says Bishop Onuoha outscored the rest including APM, NRM, APP, SDP and APGA candidates.
Addressing newsmen in Umuahia, the Director General of the group, Dr. Uduma Nnate said the screening was “to ensure that the next Governor of Abia State is from Abia North extraction in line with the Abia charter of equity propounded by our founding fathers and has been practised since 1999.
“Our Consensus Candidate after all due considerations of capacity, integrity, sound health, manifesto and knowledge of good governance is Bishop Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha of ADC Party”.
The group which has been at the forefront of promoting and encouraging aspirants from Abia North from different political parties till the conclusion of primaries, disclosed “After the Primaries, we discovered that 10 out of the 18 political parties gave their party governorship ticket to Abia North sons or daughters.
“It became obvious that as a people, we cannot go for the governorship election in 2023 with 10 candidates at the same time and expect to win or miracle to happen.
“We had to setup a screening committee that will among other things consider the chances, capacity, credibility, competence, political party, and individual contact network of the different candidates from Abia North and select one”.
According to them, “The key considerations for the committee are capacity, credibility, competence, sound health, political party and knowledge of good governance”.
The group charged others, “We are aware that the flag/ticket you hold belongs to your political party and will definitely consult your party before stepping down for the consensus candidate for the overall interest of Abia North people and Ndi Abia in general.
“All our governorship candidates in all the parties are qualified and met our selection criteria but we must present only one person. It is also important to note that other groups and establishments are narrowing down and adopting our consensus governorship candidate”, the group concluded.
