The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Imo State, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, has denied media reports suggesting that he was being sponsored to run for governorship seat of the state.
Special adviser on Media to Anyanwu, who is the national secretary of PDP, Ikenna Onuoha, in a press statement made available to LEADERSHIP on Thursday, described the report as misleading and mischievous.
He said, “Following this fake news, our phones were inundated with calls by well meaning Nigerians, who in their curiosity sought to ascertain the veracity or authenticity of the story.
“For the avoidance of doubt, this story is not only false, baseless, and misleading, but a brazen concoction garnished by individuals already afraid of PDP and its Governorship candidate to deceive the general public.”
He said peddlers of the falsehood should not forgot that in 2019, Senator Anyanwu ran for governorship election when the person said to be sponsoring him today was also in the race.
The statement continued: “The questions are; who sponsored Senator Anyanwu in the 2019 Governorship poll if in their mischievous imagination, he can be sponsored today? Whose interest was the PDP Guber candidate protecting as far back as 2019 when some of those championing the fake news today were struggling to be relevant?
“We wish to put the records straight that it is only a failure, a nonentity and a push-over that can be sponsored as a Governorship candidate to destabilize the position of Ndi-Imo and not Senator Anyanwu who represents the minds of every average Imo person.
“The truth of the matter is that the PDP Governorship candidate, Senator Anyanwu is fully out to send the inhuman APC government packing and ensure that our state is secured in its entirety.
“To show his capacity and preparedness to achieve this, Senator Anyanwu presented and released abridged version of his manifesto to the public few minutes after his emergence as Imo PDP Governorship standard bearer; a feat only him and PDP can undertake, when others are still hoping to steal from people’s strategic initiatives.
“We are aware that APC government is still enjoying the wanton killings of innocent Nigerians, incessant kidnapping and total shutdown of all businesses in the country. We are also aware that the reason why these mischief makers resorted to blackmail is because, the National Secretary of PDP resisted them from planting stooges as PDP Governorship aspirants prior to the party’s primary election.”
Onuoha urged Imo people and the general public to ignore the fake news, and be assured that APC days were numbered in the state.
