House of Reps: Ebonyi Speaker, 5 others win primaries

The embattled Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chukwuma Nwazunku and five other aspirants Saturday emerged winners of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP House of Representatives primary election conducted across the six federal constituencies of the State.
Nwazunku at the end of the primary election which took place at the headquarters of Ohaukwu local government area emerged as the candidate of PDP for Ebonyi/Ohaukwu federal constituency in the 2015 general election.
Other winners include: Hon. Linus Okorie who is the current House of Representative member representing Ohoazara/Onicha/Ivo; Hon. Sylvester Ogbaga presenting Abakaliki/Izzi; Hon. Lazarus Ogbee for Ikwo/ Ezza South; Hon. Idu Igariwey for Afikpo South/ North and Hon. Anayo Nwonu for Ishielu/Ezza North Federal constituency of the State.
The election supervised by a 4-man National Assembly Electoral Panel headed by Prof Oboh Silvanus distributed the electoral materials under the watchful eyes of representatives of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Police, State Security Service, SSS, PDP party faithful among others.
Other members of the National Assembly Electoral Panel of the PDP include: Otunba Wale Ogunride, Chief Uche Nsofor and Hajiya Hadiza Adada as the election was conducted free and fair without any report of crisis across the State.
Leader of the team, Prof. Oboh stated that they were sent from the National Secretariat of the party to conduct the National Assembly primaries in the state.
He debunked the rumour that a court injunction was obtained by the Ebonyi State government stopping the primaries from holding in the State.
“If there was any court injunction we would have been served and moreover the National Secretariat wouldn’t have sent us to Ebonyi because the party strictly adhere to the principles of the rule of Law”. Vanguard