From TCNEWS
All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA has disclosed its preparedness to participate in the upcoming local government areas election in Abia State.
Addressing newsmen at the party secretariat in Umuahia, shortly after a roundtable meeting with the State Working Committee of the party, the APGA National Youth Leader, Comrade Chuks Nwoga, who spoke with the permission of the National Secretary, Alhaji Mudi Imam, Chairman, Reconciliation and Harmonization committee, disclosed that APGA is not only ready for the election in the state, but will participate from the councillorship to the chairmanship and also win landslide with viable and credible candidates.
He also disclosed that Mr. Onuoha Egbe Benon, is now the Acting Chairman of the Abia APGA and the new development followed the Supreme Court ruling affirming Mr Edozie Njoku and INEC recognition of Njoku as the National Chairman of the party and his mandate to the members of the National Working Committee to tour round the states, harmonizing the party and reconciling the aggrieved.
He said that the party would go further to notify the relevant institutions in the state of the party’s new leadership on acting capacity.
He maintained that APGA is deeply rooted in Abia, as a state that produced the party’s founding father and pioneer national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, who is currently the party’s BOT chairman, and also a party, where the incumbent Governor Alex Otti used its umbrella twice to contest guber election.
He insisted that that there is no warring faction in the party, as the recognition of Njoku has brought unity, and the task ahead of them was to go down to the grassroots to improve on the status of the party.
Speaking also, the immediate past state chairman, High Chief Emmanuel Egwu, described the deliberation as a fruitful one, that will go a long way in winning souls/members for the party.
Egwu who maintained that APGA of yesterday is different from the present APGA under Njoku, said, “APGA is a movement and it is moving forward and we will remain the beautiful bride of Ndigbo”.
Also speaking, the APGA 2023 House of Assembly candidate for Ohafia North State Constituency, Hon. Okocha Uchenna Onuoha, lamented that party’s bad leadership cost APGA to lose the guber election in Abia in 2023.
“We failed woefully in the 2023 governorship election in Abia because we fielded in the wrong candidate. APGA nearly won the election but the wrong candidate chosen by the bad leadership, made us to fail”, Onuoha said.
Also interacting with newsmen, the Acting chairman of the party, Mr. Onuoha Egbe Benon, said their mandate was to reconcile the APGA family and the reconciliatory move would remain a continuum.
“We have been visiting the aggrieved members of our party, who turned their back on us as a result of bad leadership of the past. We have met Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, Mr. Sunday Onukwubiri, High Chief Emmanuel Egwu among others, preaching the message of peace and reconciliation and the outcome is on the positive”.
Mr. Onuoha, who said that Abia is the 19th state the Reconciliation and Harmonization committee had visited, appreciated Edozie Njoku’s efforts to change the narrative and the way things were done in the past in APGA.
He also said that the State Working Committee under his watch is prepared to face any election challenge, boosting that APGA has always won elections in Abia.