Members and supporters of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia state are still facing a dilemma of who to accept  as the governorship candidate of the party as two persons continue to lay claim to the party's governorship flag.
But the factional governorship candidate, Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba has told his teeming supporters  at Ntigha his home base that the issue of  "dual candidacy" would eventually be resolved by the court of law .

Both Dr Alex Otti and Ochiagha Reagan  Ufomba are both contending to be the authentic flag bearer of APGA in Abia, a reflection of the party's leadership crisis right from the national level.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had listed Otti as the gubernatorial candidate of APGA in Abia. But Ufomba said that the electoral umpire lacked the power to determine who should be APGA's governorship candidate as such power resided with the court of law where he had gone to seek redress.

Meanwhile Ufomba has continued to run his own governorship campaign just as Otti was going on with his own parallel campaign outfit.

At the meeting held at his compound in Ntigha, Ufomba told his people that he was still very in the race. adding that they should continue to support APGA to win the Abia governorship poll after which the court would decide between him and Otti  who would be the governor.

He predicted that Abia could experience  the type of drama that played out in Rivers State after the 2007 governorship poll whereby PDP won the poll and Celestine Omehia was sworn in as governor only for the court to declare Chibuike Amaechi as the duly elected governor.

Ufomba, who was the governorship candidate of APGA in 2011, said that the major challenge facing the party was to wrest Abia government house from the ruling PDP after which the issue of who becomes governor would be sorted out legally.

The cement merchant said that he remained the best person to pilot the affairs of Abia having garnered experience in both public and private sector.

"Abia needs somebody who understands the operative environment. If you don't understand a problem you can't solve it," Ufomba said.

Source: THISDAY