Stella Oduah looses out in Anambra Senate contest

ormer aviation minister sacked in February
2014 for purchasing two BMW cars at a highly-
inflated price has failed to make the list of
People’s Democratic Party senatorial
candidates, the list released on Tuesday by the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) shows.
Stella Oduah, after failing to capture the Anambra
North Senatorial seat, had used Pius Anyim, the
Secretary to the Federal Government, to
intimidate INEC to get her name into the list.
That plan failed, as INEC released the name of
John Okechuckwu Emeka as the court-ordered
candidate of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) for the seat.
Also removed from the list is Andy Uba, a
former domestic aide to President Olusegun
Obasanjo. He was replaced with his equally
controversial younger brother, Chris Uba as the
PDP candidate for Anambra South in the
forthcoming general election. Chris Uba, it
would be recalled, confessed to having rigged
the 2003 gubernatorial election in the state, in
favour of Chris Ngige.
Andy Uba and Ms. Oduah had been anointed by
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife,
Patience, to clinch the senatorial slots, but they
both lost in last month’s state party primaries.
Since that defeat, Ms. Oduah has been
conniving with lawyers, some judges and SGF
Anyim to impose her name on INEC, in a
political no-man’s-land where integrity has no
meaning.