FINALLY: TONY NWOYE PDP CONFIRMED CANDIDATE

The election permutations were dramatically altered yesterday after the Court of Appeal in Port-Harcourt restored Comrade Tony Nwoye as the candidate of the PDP.
Nwoye who won the August 24, 2013 primaries had been replaced few weeks ago as candidate upon the order of a Federal High Court in Port-Harcourt which ruled that...
Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu is the
candidate of the party.
That order was discharged yesterday by the Court of Appeal which
dismissed all the orders granted Ukachukwu by the lower court. The
development immediately reset permutations on ground in several
directions.
Among those to be seriously affected with the development is Chief
Willy Obiano, the APGA candidate who until now was basking in the fact
that he is the only one of the major candidates from Anambra North
Senatorial zone, the zone that has been most united in projecting
individuals from the zone to be the next governor of the state.
Anambra North has not produced a governor of the state and the nearest
it came to it was in 1998 when Mrs. Joy Emodi made a celebrated bid
for the governorship.
Nwoye's emergence is also likely to draw from the youth vote and could
impel support that was until his reemergence was drifting towards
Ifeanyi Ubah, the Labour Party candidate.
A former president of the National Association of Nigerian Students,
NANS, Nwoye could tap into the youth and students' vote at the expense
of similarly youthful candidates.
However, Nwoye remains snared by the ever furtive political
machinations of his rivals in the PDP.
Would Senator Andy Uba who was once Nwoye's political patron but lost
out to Nwoye fall into line to back his former political pupil?
Or would Ukachukwu who fascinated some other more matured political
operators on ground to grab the ticket from Nwoye now relax and
cooperate with the new candidate?