SEast APC dissociates self from Anambra repeat congress
South-East chapter of the All Progressives Congress has dissociated itself from the Anambra State congress conducted by some aggrieved members of the party last Friday.
The aggrieved members, it was gathered, were led by Senator Ani Okonkwo and conducted their congress at the Women Development Centre, Awka.
However, spokesperson for the party in the zone, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, told our correspondent in Enugu, on Monday, that the South-East APC upheld its earlier Anambra State congress held on April 26 at the Alex Ekwueme Square, in Awka.
On the position of the Congress Appeal Report on Anambra State and the Abari Sub-committee, Okechukwu accused the organisers of the repeat congress of plotting to de-stabilise APC in Anambra and scuttle its case before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka.
He appealed to all APC members in the state to join hands with Senator Chris Ngige, who remains the leader of the party by virtue of his position as the highest APC political office holder in the state.
Ngige was the partys candidate in the 2013 Anambra State governorship election.
Okechukwu maintained that there is no faction in Anambra APC, describing the purported repeat congress as a gathering of disloyal politicians being used by external forces to destabilise the party.
He said, All one can say is that Senator Annie Okonkwo cannot in all honesty say he is a genuine member of the APC, having sabotaged the party during the Anambra State gubernatorial election late last year.
I am worried he may withdraw the APC suit at the tribunal if by mistake the leadership hand over the structure of the party to him. The late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke did same to Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).
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SEast APC dissociates self from Anambra repeat congress