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This paves the way for the re-run election holding today in the district.
He described the December 13 Federal High Court which ruled that Dr Obiora Okonkwo was the valid candidate of the PDP in the March 2015 election as having no momentum and a distraction.
For today's election, 13 candidates were expected to participate, although only Umeh, the candidate of APGA, stood out.
"My attention has been drawn to a list by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which contains my name as a candidate in the rerun Anambra Central Senatorial Election being conducted Saturday, January 13, 2018".
"I had since by a letter dated 11th January 2016 withdrawn from this rerun when it was earlier scheduled for March 2016, in accordance with the provisions of sections 33 &35 of the Electoral Act 2010 for personal and family reasons".
"For the information of the General Public and voters as well as my numerous supporters in Anambra Central Senatorial District, I'm not participating in the said election which can be described as a charade'".
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He wondered what the commission was up to after rejecting the name forwarded to it by the APC as his replacement after monitoring the primary that produced the candidate.
DAILY POST correspondent who monitored the rerun election reports that in some polling units, electoral officers were seen sitting idle as a result of low turnout by voters.
'My party, the APC, accepted and promptly wrote INEC for my substitution.
"In this case, the PDP has lost the seat, therefore there is no seat to replace and again there is no tenure to serve because the election in question has been nullified, the question of pre-election matter does not arise".
In the first election conducted in 2015, he lost to the People's Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Uche Ekwunife.
Earlier, Okonkwo's effort to postpone the rerun at the Appeal Court failed as a ruling on the matter by a three-man panel of justices presided by Justice Abubakar Datti Yahaya, held that the earlier order made on November 20, 2017 directing INEC to conduct election for the senatorial seat within 90 days can not be reversed so as not to make mockery of the judiciary.
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