Fresh crisis rocks APGA as Alex Otti's faction elects new excos
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The Alex Otti-led faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, has elected 26-man State Working Committee (SWC) of the party at a well-attended congress held in Umuahia, the Abia state capital.
In a statement released by the newly elected Publicity secretary, Ebere Uzoukwa, ward Executives, chairmen for the seventeen local government areas of Abia and three zonal vice chairmen of the party were also elected.
The statement reads: "We are indeed grateful to you for honoring this invitation extended to you even on a short notice.
"We explicitly deemed it necessary to brief you on some recent developments within our party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia State chapter. Prominent among these developments is the emergence of the newly and congress elected members of the State Working Committee (SWC) and LGA Chairmen of Abia APGA.
The 26-man Abia APGA SWC as duly constituted has the membership of the following officials;
1. Chief Nkem Okoro (JP, KSQ) Chairman
2. Hon. Elvis Wabara Deputy Chairman
3. Chief Kalu Okpo Kalu Vice Chairman (Abia North)
4. Mr. Pino Nwagbaso Vice Chairman (Abia South)
5. Evang. Innocent Okamgba Vice Chairman (Abia Central)
6. Dr. Onyebuchi Onyegbule State Secretary
7. Hon. Finbars Ukaegbu Assistant State Secretary
8. Maureen Okonkwo State Treasurer
9. Hon. Chibuike Ako Assistant State Treasurer
10.Nnamdi Nwanganga State Financial Secretary
11.Engr. Amaechi Aniche Assistant State Financial Secretary
12. Hon. Ebere Uzoukwa State Publicity Secretary
13. Prince Ugwuzo Assistant State Publicity Secretary
14. Barr. Grant Eboh State Legal Adviser
15. Barr. Chukwudi Ifegwu Assistant State Legal Adviser
16. Mr. Uche Nwosu State Organizing Secretary
17. Hon. Emma Oti Assistant State Organizing Secretary
18. Hon. Christian Okeri State Youth Leader
19. Nkem Esiaba Assistant State Youth Leader
20. Mrs. B. U Ahia State Woman Leader
21. Mrs. Victoria Onwubiko Assistant State Woman Leader
22. Mrs Nelly C. Ndukwe State Welfare Secretary
23. Mrs. Ifeoma Ike Assistant State Welfare Secretary
24. Vincent Amaechi Ex-Officio
25. Mr. Peter Okoro Ex-Officio
26. Bertha Ehumadu Ex-Officio
The 17 Congress Elected Local Government Chairmen-
1. Chief C . Ikeanumba Aba North
2. Mr. Damian Okwaraibe Aba South
3. Orji Okorie Arochukwu
4. Lawrence Chukwunuru Bende
5. Emmanuel Okebugwu Ikwuano
6. Mr. Ako Nwosu Isialangwa North
7. Hon. Peter Uzodinma Isialangwa South
8. Amisionwu Angela Isikwuato
9. Uzoma Emezuo Obingwa
10. Hon. Kalu Mba Nwoke Ohafia
11. Hon. Samuel Nkoro Osisioma
12. Emeka Esiaba Ugwunagbo
13. Onyebuchi Nnah Ukwa East
14. Anthony Chigbu Ukwa West
15. Hon. Leonard Ogbonna Umuahia North
16. Hon. Omerenma Ogbonna Umuahia South
17. Charles Orie Umunneochi
Gentlemen of the press, this team constitutes the authentic and INEC recognized leadership of Abia APGA including the congress elected Ward Executives.
We also wish to ventilate our condemnation in its entirety the brigandage and illegality perpetrated by some usurpers and hoodlums who regrouped and attempted to hijack our great party, apparently to pursue a fraudulent, selfish agenda at the detriment of the ideals of our party as the leading voice of the opposition and the watershed of the democratic struggle to revive the state. We wish to announce that the purported exercise and the illegal gathering of some persons at the party's secretariat on 23rd May, masterminded by the former state chairman, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere and his co-travelers, were nothing but a sham and nullity hence a court of competent jurisdiction declared it null and void.
Inasmuch we don't intend to join issues with the former state chairman, Rev. Ehiemere and his sponsors/paymasters, the salient and incontrovertible fact remains that Abia APGA is intact, indivisible and purposeful under the leadership of our amiable and dynamic Governorship candidate, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR and other leaders sharing a common vision of lifting Abia from the doldrums of backwardness and bad governance to the pedestal of good governance and redemptive leadership.
May we therefore use this medium to pass an implicit vote of confidence on Dr. Alex Otti, OFR for providing the rightful leadership and the wherewithal that politically elevated and sustained Abia APGA as the leading opposition party and the voice of the groaning masses in the state since 2014 till date.
Also in the same vein, the new and authentic leadership of APGA as presently constituted, hereby declare an unequivocal support and absolute loyalty to Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, the 2019 Abia APGA Governorship Candidate, as he diligently pursues his petition at the Abia Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia; believing strongly the sanctity and impartiality of the judiciary as the last hope of a common man. We are equally poised and determined to work on the side of Ndi Abia by resisting through legitimate means any attempt by those 'hijackers and usurpers' masquerading as APGA leaders but merely recruited by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Government of Abia State to derail the course of justice in our dear state. Abia, our dear state and God's Own State, must be liberated.
Thanks and remain blessed.
Hon. Nkem Okoro (JP, KSQ) State Chairman
Dr. Onyebuchi OnyegbuleState Secretary
Hon. Ebere UzoukwaState Publicity Secretary
For and on behalf of Abia APGA State Working Committee (SWC).
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