Ebonyi Senatorial ticket: Agom-Eze denies receiving gratification to withdraw for Umahi
From Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki
The Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ebonyi South zone, Princess Ann Agom-Eze, has denied allegations that she accepted a PREDO Jeep, house, cash and landed property to stepdown for Governor David Umahi.
Sue said the allegations were baseless, unfounded and diversionary.
Last Friday, a Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, recognized Agom-Eze, as the authentic senatorial candidate of the APC, for Ebonyi South Zone.
Umahi had through his Counsel, Roy Nweze Umahi, dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, to the Federal High Court Abakaliki, asking the Court to compel the commission to recognize him as the authentic senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial district.
But the Court declined to grant Umahi’s prayer, rather, it recognized Princess Agom-Eze as the rightful candidate for the party.
There were allegations making the rounds that Princess Agom-Eze accepted over N40million, a jeep, a house and a land at the Ochudo Centenary City Abakaliki, to withdraw from the race, for Umahi, only to make a U-turn midway.
The State Government, in a statement by Umahi’s Special Assistant on Strategy, Chooks Okoh, equally accused Agom-Eze of deceiving the Court by tendering fictitious documents to the INEC, to get favourable judgement.
But reacting to the allegation, on Sunday, in Abakaliki, Princess Agom-Eze, said the accusation was not only baseless and unfounded, but a diversionary move to deceive the constituents.
She said: “The rumor making the rounds that I collected various amount of money, with a Prado, a house in Ochoudo is all fabrications. I never asked and I never received such from anyone.
“This is baseless, unfounded and diversionary. This latest move is intended to confuse Ebonyi people in order to shift their focus off the reality of the epoch. But I’m happy Ebonyi people are wiser now than before and they won’t allow anybody to deceive them again.
“They have been flying all manners of documents and trying to deceive the electorates over what the realities on the grounds are, currently.
“You people should not take them serious as usual. They are aware of what the Court said on Friday and what do you expect from them? They must fight back. But they should be reminded that despite their tantrums, constituents of Ebonyi South zone yearn for change and they have repeatedly said I’m that change they need at this time. I want to serve my people and give them the best of representation. That’s my focus. I don’t what to be distracted now by their whims and caprices.”
