Anambra Election Falllout: Return my cars and money, Ifeanyi Ubah orders campaign coordinators

Apparently dissatisfied with the way they handled his electioneering campaign, Labour Party’s candidate in the November 16, 2013 governorship election in Anambra state, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah has reportedly set up a committee, whose responsibility it is, to recover the campaign vehicles and monies he doled out to his directors, coordinators and agents in the state’s 21 local government areas, wards and the three senatorial zones during the campaigns for the election.


Chief Ubah reportedly felt disappointed that many of his campaign workers betrayed him by working for rival candidates which culminated in him coming fourth, with 37,565 votes in the announced results although the election itself is still inconclusive as supplementary elections are to be held.

As a result of this development, many of his campaign workers have been forced to go underground in order to keep their ‘loot’.

A source stated that Ubah discovered that many of his workers traded off their support during the election and looked the other way when rigging was being done for other candidates.

“Ubah was particularly peeved that these directors, coordinators and agents betrayed the trust and confidence he reposed in them,” a source said.
A Labour party member in the state, however, did not take the action lightly. While speaking with THISDAY, he condemned the act as a sign of political immaturity. “It depends on what he is talking about anyway. Did his campaign workers ask him to give them bribe or vehicles to work?

He voluntarily gave out vehicles and no one forced him. If he is recovering vehicles, it smacks of ingratitude because those people rendered services to him during the campaigns. Can he quantify their services in monetary terms except unless there was a written contract he had with those people?”

In a bid to quell the speculations, Media Director, Ifeanyi Ubah Campaign Organisation, Afam IIouno stated emphatically that Ubah was not setting up a debt recovery committee but merely doing a general stock taking.

“He wanted to know what happened, the area he did well and where he didn’t. Even when he was running his campaign organisation, he was very prudent and if you are given a task, you report back and render account of youe stewardship.

“After the election, he called his coordinators in the wards, local governments, state and the Senatorial zones to try to establish and know how things went down the line but people started blackmailing him. It is not a new thing to people that work with him except those who want to be funny,” Ilouno said.

Culled From This Day Newspaper