Ebonyi South: APC Group Roots For Obirija To Replace Umahi At Senate

-Urges Ebonyi Gov, Minister of Works, Other To Support Onicha Youngman

By Segun Ojo, Osogbo

A sociopolitical group, Asiwaju Project Beyond 2023 has urged the party to allow its Southeast Coordinator, Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija to replace Senator David Umahi as the party’s candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial district.

The seat became vacant following the appointment of Senator David Umahi as Minister of Works by President Bola Tinubu.

The group in a statement by its National Director for Media and Publicity, Comrade Adeboye Adebayo and made available to CityMirrorNews in Osogbo on Tuesday, said, it decided to push Obirija forward on the heel of the numerous calls by his kinsmen to allow Onicha East to have a shot at public office.

Adebayo described Obirija as a man to beat and eminently qualify to represent them at the senate.

“We are using this medium to inform Nigerians, general public and indeed the good people of Ebonyi South Senatorial District that Mr Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija has answered their calls to represent them at the senate after the appointment of our Leader, His Excellency, David Umahi as the Minister of Works by our dear president; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“Mr. Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija hails from from Ogazi Obirija Compound, Ikwu- ano, Amoffia Ukawu, Onicha local government area was a former aspirant of the State House of Assembly under the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party in the state.

“He has contributed immensely to the sustenance and deepening of democracy in Nigeria and Ebonyi State in particular. His firm belief in the course of progressive ideologies is unwavering and he has since been doing all that is required to nurture its growth and development for the good of all” Adebayo said.

According to the statement “Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija was our State Coordinator in Ebonyi State for many years under our mother platform; Asiwaju Grassroots Foundation, AGF, before he was appointed as the South East Zonal Coordinator of the organization, coordinating all its activities and funding in the states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and through his former and current office.

“He has displayed enormous capacity, loyalty and genuine commitment to the principles and ideals of our Principal, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He has paid his dues and he deserved all the support he needs” the statement said.

Adebayo further said “During 2023 Presidential, National Assembly and Gubernatorial elections, your Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija mobilized human, material and financial resources to ensure victories for all the candidates of our great party in Ebonyi state and beyond.

He personally donated resources to mobilize people for campaigns across the south east, he donated campaign materials like 1000 branded T-shirts, branded notebooks for school pupils, 1000 branded Face caps, branded menstrual cups and bill boards across south eastern region among others.

“Onicha Local government area has never been in the Senate before. Onicha is divided into two blocs East and West, with Onicha West having a Council Boss and has produced 3 Commissioners while Onicha East is left with nothing. Going down memory lane, all the Local government areas in Ebonyi South senatorial district except Onicha have taken their turn in Senatorial position in the past 16 years.

“It is right and just in the spirit of fairness known with our progressive party, to consider Onicha local government area the chance to clinch the vacant seat in order to heal some wounds and to maintain equity.

“Nwaji Marcel Anyigor Obirija is eminently qualified to represent the good people of Ebonyi South senatorial district and he will do well for his people, the state and Nigeria as a whole, hence we are calling on the Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Francis Ogbonnaya Nwifuru, the Minister of work, His Excellency David Umahi and other leaders of the All-Progressives Congress, APC in the State to support this young man from Onicha local government” Adebayo concluded.