The opposing presidential candidate for the Thursday 7th December Anambra State Chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, election, Comrade Victor Muo, has said the purported reelection of Comrade Chikwelu Adigwe as president to pilot the affairs of the union in the next four years lacks legality.
Comrade Muo, who spoke to the press in Awka on Friday 8 December following the outcome of the union’s state quadrennial conference held at its secretariat in Awka, pointed out what he described as several irregularities that marred the conference, which, he said, made him to stage a walkout during the election.
‘I staged a walkout because a section of our constitution, Rule 12, II, which clearly stated that the state executive council has the right to choose the date and the venue for the state delegate conference, was contravened by the people ably led by the National President, NULGE, Comrade Ambali Olatunji, who came to conduct the election.
‘The Anambra State executive council chose 30th November…
‘I wrote a petition with some of the state officers that were with Chikwelu Adigwe.