‘I’m not dead’ – Abia APC Senatorial candidate, Erondu cries out over alleged name substitution

The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaigner for Abia South Senatorial District, Erondu Uchenna Erondu Jr., has rejected the alleged substitution of his sanction arsenic the party’s campaigner for the 2027 wide election, describing the purported enactment arsenic unlawful and unconstitutional.

In a property connection personally signed connected Saturday, Erondu said helium is not dormant and remains the duly nominated APC campaigner for Abia South.

Erondu, who is presently a subordinate of the Abia State House of Assembly representing Obingwa West Constituency, said the superior predetermination conducted connected May 16, 2026, crossed the 65 electoral wards successful the six section authorities areas of Abia South Senatorial District returned him arsenic the winner.

Erondu Jr. said his mandate was declared by the APC National Working Committee successful the beingness of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Department of State Services (DSS). He added that helium was issued a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the APC Abia South superior predetermination results connected June 30, 2026.

He expressed interest implicit reports that his sanction had been replaced with Paul Ikonne successful usurpation of the Electoral Act, 2026.

Citing Section 33 of the Electoral Act, 2026, helium explained that a governmental enactment tin lone substitute a campaigner wherever the campaigner dies, voluntarily withdraws done a personally signed written announcement addressed t...