...Our party is not ready for election in Enugu, they declared

Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State have declared that there is no going back on their resolve to unseat the state executive of the party led by Chief Ugochukwu Agballa.

The major stakeholders believe the APC in the State is not ready for the 2023 general elections in the State hence their resolve to effect a change in leadership.

The crisis in the state chapter of the party took a turn for the worse recently when major stakeholders moved to the national secretariat in Abuja to demand immediate removal of Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah as the State Chairman.

Rising from a stakeholders meeting in Enugu on Sunday, the party chieftains reiterated their resolve to institute a caretaker committee to oversee the activities of the party leading to the elections.

Former Senate President, Sen. Ken Nnamani, said that the party did not seem attractive to prospective members due to Agballah’s leadership style.

Nnamani said that the party chairman had neglected party stalwarts and was through his conducts leading the party to a disastrous end.

“We feel the party is not going the way it should go. There is danger ahead as people are leaving our party.

“For only one person to contest our party’s gubernatorial primaries shows we are not attractive and most of our flag bearers are those most unlikely to win elections.

“Candidates of other parties have been coming to us to appeal for our support but ours are not coming,” he said.

Nnamani said that the chieftains would do everything possible to rescue the party and save it from implosion, adding that a fractured party would not do well in elections.

Also, former State governor, Barr. Sullivan Chime, described Agballa as an impostor bent on destroying the party in the State.

Chime said that he never supported the candidacy of Agballah as party chairman due to his antecedents.

According to him, “it is strange that I do not know any candidate from House of Assembly to Senate from my constituency and zone.

“I do not know who our candidates are. For the governorship candidate, I am hearing it as a rumour, though it happens to be the person I knew from a distance.”

“The last time I saw him was during Gov. Chimaroke Nnamani’s administration. I have not seen him since he emerged,” he said.

The former governor said that election was about electing those that would be useful to the party and the people.

However, some supporters of Agballah had at an emergency meeting in Enugu also on Sunday, passed a vote of confidence on him saying the stakeholders calling for his removal were doing so for selfish reasons.

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