The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has squashed speculations of crisis within the party in Enugu state as baseless. Ganduje stated ths in a statement released on Sunday after the Enugu State APC stakeholders meeting organized at the party’s Secretariat on Saturday. Ganduje, who was represented by the Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, labelled the supposed suspension of Agballah-led State Executive Committee of the party as nonexistent.....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
Ganduje recognized Mr Ugochukwu Agballah as the state chairman, noting that there was no parallel executive in Enugu State.
Recall that, Justice C.V.C. Ezeugwu of the Enugu State High Court had, on August 9, issued an injunction restraining Ugochukwu Agballah from parading himself as Chairman of the APC in Enugu.
In the restraining order in suit No: E/548/2024, Idoko Chikadibia, Jude Chinedu Aniogbo, Moses Emeka Eze, Sunday Ugwoke, Ugwu Christian Kanayo, Eze Chidiebere Johnson, Queen Charles, Onyekachi T. Ezeagu, and Augustine Alumonah, were barred from parading themselves as party officials.
This came after a suit filed by Acting State Chairman of the APC in Enugu, Nwafor Onyeachonam and other party executives, who prayed the court to bar Agballah and others from claiming leadership positions within the party.
“There is no faction in Enugu APC. I’m the Deputy National Chairman, in the South, and nobody becomes state Chairman in the South without my knowledge. The national chairman I’m representing does not know any other person as state chairman other than Chief Ugochukwu Agballah.
“There are people who go to Enugu State Government House to make sure APC is destabilized at all times. It has always been their stock in trade. And they do this usually close to any election.
“The National secretariat is frowning at it and making sure it will stop it so that it will not happen again.
“I can assure you that the National Secretariat does not even know there is any problem in Enugu APC. It was when I landed in Enugu this morning that I started hearing about one group. But the National Chairman recognizes Agballah as state Chairman of APC.
“In the same vein, I urge Agballah and the stakeholders in the state, if any one of them becomes repentant let’s bring them back. We are building a party to win the election, as we still need everyone on board,” Ganduje said.
At the meeting, Senator Chuka Utazi also announced that the party has “upheld the suspension of 20 members who participated in dragging the party to court and the purported suspension of the state Chairman without exhausting internal party mechanism as provided in the Party’s Constitution.”
“The meeting frowned at the recent display of gross indiscipline and total disregard to the APC Constitution by some misguided party members who met in a hotel and purportedly announced the suspension of the Enugu state Chairman of APC, The Hon. Ugochukwu H. Agballah and others…
“The stakeholders hereby accept the recommendations of the Disciplinary Committee suspending the actors from the party.The Enugu APC stakeholders thanked Ndigbo for not participating in the recent protest against the government of President Bola Tinubu, and expressed absolute confidence in the “Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President,” Utazi said.
