By Correspondent in Awka.
Chief Clement Ojukwu, the National Organising Secretary,
Labour Party(LP) in Anambra State, has appealed to the abductors of the party’s candidate in the just concluded governorship in the state, Mr Obiorah Agbasimelo to set him free.
Ojukwu made the call in a statement he signed and made available Newsmen on Tuesday in Awka.
The Reporters reports that Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won the election.
He said that the Anambra governorship election for the party had come and gone with success stories of no blood letting as was highly envisaged by the public.
Ojukwu added that the election which was peacefully conducted on Saturday 6th November was keenly contested by the Candidates of all the registered political parties without record of violence or loss of lives.
“We at the labour party return all the glory to God Almighty,” he said
The organising secreary disclosed that the governorship candidate of the party was kidnapped on September 8, adding that he had remained in the hands of abductors till date.
“ Chief Obiora Agbasimelo has not been set free by his kidnappers till date. His absence greatly affected Labour Party and the morale of its teeming supporters.
“His vibrant, youthful nature , well-educated and informed Campaign strategy and oratory rattled the opposition and gave the masses great hope of a landslide victory in the Election.
“ Unfortunately, he was kidnapped and kept away from Campaigns, debates and discussions, prior to the election. Today, the election has come and gone and a winner announced by INEC.
“On behalf of our great Labour Party, our teeming supporters and his wife, children and family, we humbly and most passionately appeal and beg the kidnappers of our dear Candidate to kindly set him free.
“We Kindly appeal to the abductors to release him to rejoin his troubled family and traumatised wife and children, after a very long hostage and exclusion from the rest of humankind.
“We make this appeal in the name of God Almighty and believe that our appeal will yield positive result to the glory of God.
“ We urged all good, spirited human being in the state to join us in this clarion call,” he stressed.
The Reporters recalls that Agbasimelo was kidnapped while leaving a campaign ground at Ezinifitte Nnewi South Local Government Area to Azhia in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. Correspondent in Awka.
Prof Chukwuma Soludo, one time Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), has been declared governor-elect of Anambra State.
Professor Comfort Obi, the Returning Officer of the election, gave the declaration in the mid night of Wednesday.
She that said Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the election, polled 112,229 votes, followed by Mr Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 53,807 votes and Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who had 53,807 votes.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.