Politicians In Fears As Deadline For Nominations Near

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From Chuks Collins, Awka

Most politicians in Anambra state have been thrown into palpable fears and trepidation as the countdown for the deadline for the submission of names/substitution of nominations for the 2015 mounts till midnight today.

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The open fears cut across parties, candidates and positions, as investigations revealed that even the political party chiefs were also troubled.

The widespread apprehension according to a member of the Mega Progressives Peoples Party(MPPP) was because it was only the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) that has the legal mandate to accept or reject any candidate.

A visit to virtually all political events and gatherings round Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi and other major cities in the state revealed the high level of uneasiness among politicians.

However, few of the candidates including Chief Chinwendu Odedo of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and Mr Dozie Nwankwo of the All Progressives grand Alliance(APGA) were among the few who were expected to make the final list and even to proceed to win the election eventually.

According to Mr Bonny Onwubualili, ?Odedo has remained a shining example of what public service and representation means and should be?.

He noted that the lawmaker who represents Idemili Federal Constituency at the National Assembly has over the years successfully attracted no fewer than two major Federal projects to each of the 17 communities within the constituency every year. That he has made constituents? empowerment a quarterly affair when he regularly briefs and interacts with his people. Odedo also has nearly 1000 pupils of Idemili in his multimillion naira scholarship scheme, amongst many other poverty alleviation projects and programmes.

Dozie Nwankwo who was nominated by the overwhelming number of APGA delegates within his Anaoch/Dunukofia/Njikoka Federal constituency during the just concluded party primaries remain one of the popular candidates within the state.

Nwankwo, a very young politician was said to be deep in philanthropy even from his primary and secondary school days. He was said to have imbibed the act from lessons of the pains of loss of his dear mother early in life.

This, according to Chief Sam Oraegbunam, Nwankwo has shown through a massive poverty alleviation programmes like Keke Napep, scholarship scheme, widow support, Youth/women empowerment as well as skills acquisition. He also has a unique free medical scheme that has been serving all citizens of the Federal Constituency annually in the last 20 years.

Oraegbunam said it was the aggregate of these kind deeds that compelled the natives to call on him to come out to represent them at the national assembly.

Nwankwo in an interview with journalists yesterday said he was willing and ready to expand the scope of his programme in the constituency.

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