The All Progressives Congress [APC] senatorial candidate for the Abia North Senatorial Zone, Abia State, Nnenna Lancaster-Okoro, has debunked rumors that she has withdrawn from the March 5, INEC rescheduled re-run election in the zone.
Speaking with newsmen in Ohafia, Lancaster- Okoro blamed her political detractors and opponents who are intimidated by her credibility and wide acceptance by the people of the zone as peddlers of the unfounded rumor.
Lancaster-Okoro wondered what would make her to step down for any of the other contestants saying she is in the race to win and not to step down.
The UK based legal practitioner said she was in England when the Court of Appeal at Owerri nullified the election of Abia North Senatorial Zone and called for a complete repeat of the exercise and that shortly after she arrived the country she started hearing the rumour that she has been paid money to step down for a particular candidate
She said, “When I heard it, I thought it was the handiwork of mischief makers but when somebody from the high quarters asked me about it, I felt it was time and proper to put the records clear.
She stated that “people came to me to say that the former governor of the state, Orji Uzor Kalu, asked me to collapse my structure to support him for the race and I told them to go and tell him that he should be the one that should instead collapse his structure to support me because I am more credible and academically and better in all ramifications to represent the people of the zone in the senate.
Lancaster- Okoro called on the people of the zone to vote for her as APC candidate who is capable of attracting federal presence that would impact positively on the lives of the people, assuring them of all round effective representation in the senate.