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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Ebonyi 2023: PDP Guber Candidate, Odii Flays Ogba's 'false' Claims, Seeks Unity Ahead Of Polls - hallmarknews.com

The AnyiChuks Campaign Organization, the campaign organization of Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Ebonyi State governorship election, has appealed to party members to close ranks with a view to achieving the much needed liberation of the state in 2023.

This is as it dismissed claims by Senator Obinna Ogba that he remained the authentic candidate of the main opposition party in the state, warning that the much needed cohesion within the party could not be achieved through “falsehood or the telling of blatant lies.”

Senator Ogba, chairman of senate committee on sports, who emerged candidate in a now nullified rescheduled governorship primary held on Sunday, June 5, had addressed a press conference on Saturday, insisting that he remained the authentic candidate of the party in the state.

Meanwhile, a federal high court sitting in Abakaliki, had on Tuesday, June 7, nullified the rescheduled primary election, which was boycotted by ad-hoc party delegates, pronouncing it illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.

Addressing Ogba’s claims in a statement on Sunday by its director-general, Abia Onyike, the AnyiChucks Campaign Organization maintained that the Lagos-based industrialist is the only PDP governorship candidate whose name has since been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

According to Onyike in the statement titled, ‘The Time for Truth and Reconciliation has Come,’ the crisis in the party cannot...



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