Abia State APC, PDP troubled by division, decease | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⚠️
APC, which parades a lot of big names, was waxing optimistic to reverse PDP’s dominance in the state until internal bickering within the party swelled in the build up to the nomination process.
More over, members of the outgoing governor’s inner caucus said the governor decided to do what Senator T. A. Orji planned to do when Prof. Mkpa Agu was speculated as his possible successor, but for the former Vice Chancellor’s age. It was against the background of the subdued complaints in PDP that APC exulted in optimism that despite the famed population of the Ukwa Ngwa clan, it would rout the governing party for offending the zoning scheme. APC therefore strategically zoned its gubernatorial ticket to Abia North Senatorial District, where the interplay of political brinkmanship and opportunism threw up two rival contenders in the persons of the former Minister for Mining and Steel Development, Dr.
As the governorship poll is yet to hold, the Independent National Electoral Commission has given PDP 14 days to organise another straw poll to nominate a replacement. As the opposition elements in the state began to make heavy whether of his absence from the Atiku rally in Abakaliki, Ikpeazu regretted the attempt to pitch him against the PDP NWC and Ayu, stressing that he was still mourning the loss of a citizen and acolyte.
The NWC has already released guidelines for participation in the planned fresh gubernatorial primary. It would be seen how the exercise would go to uphold the ascendancy of Ayu or resolve of the G5 to stonewall the Ayu-led executive. There are insinuations that on account of the confused state of APC in the state, the younger brother to the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Mascot Uzor Kalu, decided to pursue his gubernatorial ambition on the platform of Action Peoples Party .
Announcing his defection via a letter to the Speaker of House of Representatives on Thursday December 17, 2020, Hon. Onuigbo cited division and crisis in his Local Government Area. Onuigbo hails from the same constituency as former PDP National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu and T. A. Orji.
But, while Ogah, who resigned his membership of the federal cabinet to contest the governorship, won the APC primary conducted through the direct methodology, Emenike, who waved a spurious letter from the national headquarters of the party, won the parallel primary conducted under indirect mode. The letter was titled, “Withdrawal from APC Senatorial Primary for Abia Central Senatorial District.” Announcing her decision to withdraw from the primary, in which she had earlier been screened and cleared to contest, Nwaogu stated: “I Senator Nkechi J. Nwaogu, PhD, CON; hereby withdraw my participation in the forthcoming Senatorial primary election slated for May 28, 2022.
The Magistrate ruled followed a criminal complaint in suit No. UMSC/362/2022 by the APC against Ogah, contending that while he did not participate in the party’s gubernatorial primary, the former minister decided to forge the APC direct primary result sheet, which he parades as genuine.
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