Nigeria: No Going Back On Mbadinuju, Says AD Chief

19 March 2003

Awka — In an apparent reference to the threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the governorship ticket given to the Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, penultimate week by the Alliance for Democracy (AD), the party's national secretary, Dr. Chudi Nwike, yesterday in Awka, said the ticket given to Mbadinuju was irrevocable.

In another development, the former gubernatorial candidate of AD in Anambra State, Chief Ifeanyi Nwokoye, said in a press conference that he organised at his campaign headquarters in Amawbia, near Awka, that the party should re-instate him as its candidate in the state and that he would never accept Mbadinuju's candidacy.

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