A group of youths and elders from Anambra South Senatorial District today staged a peaceful demonstration at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to express their solidarity with their Senator, Dr. Emmanuel Andy Uba. The protest was to counter an earlier one by some Anambra youths who demanded Senator Uba’s resignation.

The group trooped out in their numbers, bearing different placards with messages to express their dissatisfaction and in solidarity for Senator Andy Uba.

Comrade Engr. Chidi Orji, who led the group of Anambrarians to the National Assembly, said that their sole mission was to speak against “the incessant hiring of hoodlums to protest against Senator Andy Uba, and spread false news that the Distinguished Senator had no School Certificate.”

“We’re proud that Andy Uba is representing us, his certificates are there with INEC, at the Code of Conduct Bureau and also where he attended his Secondary School in Okunmagbo High School Enugu,” Engr. Orji stated. He added that WAEC Head Office is in Abuja and anyone who wants to verify facts can go there and check rather than engage in false propaganda.

Engr. Orji further stated: “The proud people of Anambra State want Andy Uba to come and salvage the people in the forth coming governorship election, we know vividly well that it is those who wants to contest the governorship election with him are behind the blackmail, but we’ll not relent.”

Also speaking at the protest ground, Raymond Ejike noted that Senator Andy Uba has been running for office and conducting elections previously, asking: “Why is it now they are peddling the fake certificate rumour?”

“Andy Uba has done marvelously well in Anambra State and in his South Senatorial Constituency,” Ejke said.

He added that Andy Uba has his constituency project sighted in every community and in every ward, he urged the National Assembly to stop entertaining hired hoodlums who are paid to gang up, malign and soil the good names of Senator Andy Uba.