Ngige has not lost any supporter — APC

By Emmanuel Aziken The Ngige campaign yesterday denied assertions that it was losing support to his major rivals in the election, Tony Nwoye and Willie Obiano, respectively the candidates of the PDP and APGA.The denial by the Ngige campaign followed news reports that one time Director General of the Ngige Campaign Organisation, Senator Annie Okonkwo had led 10,000 of his active supporters to back Nwoye and that a long time strong loyalist of Ngige, Chief Sam Anyamutaku had on his part defected to back Obiano.Okelo Madukaife, reacting on behalf of the Ngige campaign yesterday flatly denied the assertions.“Chief Anyamutaku is a business partner of Chief Annie Okonkwo who has consistently supported him politically,” Madukaife said yesterday in an email response to Vanguard.“We concede both Anyamutaku and Okonkwo their political pathway but hasten to scalrify that Anyamutaku has never been a supporter of Senator Dr Chris Ngige. He supported Annie Okonkwo in the Senatorial elections of 2011.”“We are equipped with enough information to sum up that the bogus figure is a political gambit by a rolling politician to impress his new masters without content as we are conversant with the votes against scored by Chief Annie Okonkwo in his home town Ojoto and that by Chris Ngige. Those who seek to deliver others must first deliver themselves at home.”“We are sure that the bogus figure of 10,000 in the report holds no relevance in the field as even those who managed to give Okonkwo the feeble numbers he had in 2011, including his landlord in his Awka office, parted ways with him when he broke the accord with Ngige, and are playing a satisfactory role towards the delivery of Senator Chris Ngige in next weeks polls.” -