Labour Minister Chris Ngige Collected N500 Million From Sen. Andy Uba & Tony Nwoye For APC Anambra Governorship Ticket, Alleges Threat To His Life!

The Honourable Minister for labour, Dr. Chris Ngige has cried out to the Security Agencies over serious threats to his life by Senator Andy Uba and Hon. Tony Nwoye. In a letter he forwarded to security agencies, Ngige complained about the severe harassment from Senator Andy Uba and Tony Nwoye because both want to fly the flag of All Progressives Congress, APC ticket in the forthcoming 18th of November gubernatorial election. In the letter, the Minister narrated what lead him to assume that his life is in danger. He charged the police to investigate the telephone calls Senator Andy Uba and Tony Nwoye made to his mobile phone number 08037622222.

When contacted to further expatiate on the petition to the police, the Honourable Minister for Labour confirmed that Senator Andy Uba called him last week Thursday and threatened him to return the Five Hundred Million Naira he gave to him to assist him to become the flag bearer of APC in the governorship election. Although Ngige agreed that money changed hands, he is adamant that whatever Senator Andy Uba gave to him is just money for the running of the party since he just joined our party. I am surprised that Andy who is versed in the internal working of political parties will request for refund of money donated to move our party APC forward especially funds that he donated as a latecomer to the party he said.Senator Andy Uba was granted a waiver to contest the ticket of the party because truly some persons facilitated the move for Andy to be so recognized. He also revealed that Hon. Tony Nwoye is threatening him that should he not secure the ticket, he should count himself 'deleted'. Ngige confirmed that he became worried when he analyzed the word deleted and come to realize that what it means is that he will be deleted from the face of the earth which is death. He wondered why Tony Nwoye and Andy Uba will want to kill him over mere governorship ticket.

The leadership APC has also reacted to the threat from aspirants. The National Chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun who is also facing an allegation of receiving a bribe from Senator Andy Uba and many of the aspirants confirmed that he has been briefed by the Minister and that the Police are on top of the situation. He warned aspirants to play by the rules and not twist the arms of the elders of the party who has laboured to bring the party to its present glory. He condemned in clear terms the threat to the life of the Minister and promised to set an internal mechanism for conflict resolution in the party that will settle disputes and also disciple erring members.

In his reaction, the Anambra State Chairman of APC, Mr. Emeka Ibe vow to deal with any aspirant who believes in violence. He was furious that Andy Uba will be threatening senior members of APC because he needs the party's ticket for election. As at the time of writing this report, The State Chairman of the party is in Abuja on the invitation of the National Executives of the party. He will among other things explain to the National Officers of the party what he knows about the threat and other challenges currently rocking the APC Anambra.

A stakeholder in All Progressives Congress in Anambra State Chief Desmond Oradimma frowns at the rate these 'new passengers' in APC are misbehaving as if they do not have common home training. We could not understand why these food-is-ready-politicians who can also be called tenants in APC will not allow genuine members to rest in our party. It disturbs loyal members in APC who believe that Andy and Tony Nwoye are in APC just to capsize the party and move on. Chief Oradimma is of the opinion that the duo are destabilizers sent to the party by PDP to cause trouble and render the party useless. He advises APC party faithful to shun violence as they match to the Saturday primary. With BoldNews.