ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Major stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Enugu State have declared that the party is not ready for the 2023 general elections in the State, following the crisis rocking the party.
The crisis in the party took a turn for the worse, with major stakeholders demanding the removal of Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah as the State Chairman.
Rising from a stakeholders meeting on Sunday in Enugu, the party chieftains restated their resolve to institute a caretaker committee to oversee the activities of the party leading to the elections.
Speaking also, former Senate President, Sen. Ken Nnamani, noted that the party did not seem attractive to prospective members due to Agballah’s leadership style.
He 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 further stated that the chieftains would do everything possible to rescue the party and save it from implosion.
He added that a fractured party would not do well in elections.
Also, former State Governor, Barr. Sullivan Chime, described Agballa as an impostor with the plan of destroying the party in the State.
According to Chime, he never supported the candidacy of Agballah as party chairman due to his antecedents.
“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 Governor Chimaroke Nnamani’s administration. I have not seen him since he emerged,” he said.