Hon Stanley Nwabuisi 


By Tony Icheku


 Ikwuano youths and other stakeholders were on Thursday  urged to appeal to Hon Stanley Nwabuisi, the PDP House of Assembly candidate for Ikwuano State Constituency to drop his post-election litigation against Engr Boniface Isienyi, the House of Assembly-elect for Ikwuano State Constituency, who won under Labour Party.


Speaking exclusively to                       dailyledger.com.ng from his United Kingdom base, Hon Emma Nwaka, a stalwart of the Labour Party said there is an existing protocol among Ikwuano youths to refrain from post-election litigations 


Engr Boniface Isienyi 


Hon Nwaka, who  contested the 2019 House of Assembly election for Ikwuano State Constituency under the All Progressive Congress, APC   narrated that the informal convention came into being after he lost narrowly to Nwabuisi in 2019.


"After the House of Assembly election in 2019, we in APC then had very good reasons to contest our loss, and my Team were ready to go to Court. Indeed,  the very day we were heading for the court, Ikwuano youths, led by Comrade Santiago Agomuo, the Ikwuano Youth Leaders Forum President,  Hon Cookey Lordson Nwachukwu and several others stormed my house and prevailed on me that what hurts the ear, equally hurts the eye, that as Umu Ikwuano youths, it will brew  bad blood to take one another to Court over who represents us. 


Hon Emma Nwaka 


"They preached to me that 'We are one, and one of us is holding the position in trust for us',  That was the point we all agreed that henceforth there will be no post-election litigations amongst us. And to seal that informal agreement, I used the money budgeted for  filing my court case to entertain ourselves 


"Since, that time to now I have moved on and also limited my political comments on Ikwuano, but if what am hearing is true that my brother, Stanley is going to court against his own brother, Isienyi, he is about setting a very bad precedent. I urge him as my friend and brother to have a re-think.


"Let us also urge other political stakeholders like our amiable Speaker House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Orji, like our big brother, Col Austin Akobundu (rtd) and Ikwuano Youths Leadership to prevail on Hon Nwabuisi to have a re-think if indeed he has gone to court or thinking of doing so. These stakeholders reached out to me in 2019, I urge them to do same now. We are all Umu Ikwuano before politics and nothing should obliterate that fact"


Nwaka, a member of the Labour Party in the Diaspora further reviewed the performance of Hon Nwabuisi, the incumbent House of Assembly member for Ikwuano State Constituency and scored him high. "I have followed the activities of Stanley as our representative and I must say he did excellently. From all I have seen and heard, he performed to the best of his ability, but there was too much pressure on him.


"The expectations on him was too much, but he smiled through it all. But if the people have voted for a change of guards, I urge him to move on, there is life after politics and there is still an opportunity for him to contest again.


"Going forward, I expect him to congratulate Isienyi who is also from the same ward and Umunna village like him. He should bow out gracefully and hold his head high. Going to court against his brother will make him look like a sore loser. 


"As my friend and brother, my parting words for Stanley is that losing election is not the end of the world; He should move on to better things; Politics is a game, not a do or die affair and as a young vibrant youth, he should take this loss as a sportsman and congratulate Isienyi"


Isienyi who is running for the House of Assembly ticket for the third won the ticket with a high margin  under Labour Party believed to have been popularised  by the youthful Obidient Movement who sought for change across board in Abia State.


Dailyledger.com.ng reports that Nwaka's name has become synonymous of politics without bitterness in Ikwuano as there is widespread suggestions that he won the 2019 House of Assembly election but was rigged out. He however refused to engage in post-election litigations despite pressure from some quarters