By Chinedu Adonu

ENUGU—A pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), on Tuesday hailed the landslide victory of Chief Victor Umeh in the Anambra Central Senatorial District re-run election.

Victor Umeh

The President-General of NUF, Comrade Augustine Chukwudum, made the commendation while speaking with newsmen in Enugu.

“NUF congratulates Chief Victor Umeh’s landslide victory at the just-concluded Anambra Central Senatorial Zone  re-run election held on Jan. 13.”

It was gathered that INEC’s Returning Officer in the state, Prof. Charles Esimone had earlier declared the APGA candidate, Umeh as the winner of the contest and returned elected, having scored the highest number of votes with 64, 878.

He said the number of registered voters in the seven local government areas in the senatorial district were 745, 828 out of which 67, 872 were accredited for the election.

The group, however, urged the victor to be a true Igbo ambassador at the senate.

“This is because for sometime, Ndigbo lack fearless and true representatives at the national assembly especially at the senate since 1999.

“This is why we supported Umeh to champion the Igbo cause at the national assembly.

“We strongly believe that the Igbo messiah has come; we call on all Igbos irrespective of political differences to support him to give us the true representation we desire in Nigeria,” Chukwudum said.

He also lauded INEC for conducting a very peaceful, transparent and successful re-run in Anambra Central Senatorial zone.

“We also thank the people that went to exercise their electoral mandate on Saturday,” he said.

APGA won with landslide in each of the seven local government areas of Anambra Central Senatorial District, which included: Anaocha, Awka North, Awka South, Dunukofia, Idemili North, Idemili South and Njikoka.