Crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State continues to deepen as stakeholders of the party have passed a vote of no confidence on the State chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah.
The stakeholders alleged that rather than taking the party to the next level the Agballah-led administration was bent on destroying the party through unconstitutional suspension of founding members of the state like former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, ex governor Sullivan Chime, former Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, former speaker of the Enugu State of Assembly , Eugene Odoh and recently the federal commissioner representing Enugu State in the Federal Character Commission, Mrs. Ginika Tor.
At a well-attended unification meeting in Enugu weekend, the stakeholders of the party drawn from the 17 local government areas of the state, expressed their dissatisfaction with the manner the state chairman, Ugochukwu Agballah has been piloting the activities of the party since assumption office.
The stakeholders however passed a vote of confidence on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje and the Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State in the Federal Character Commission, Ginika Tor for their commitment towards the growth.
The decision of the stakeholders was part of resolutions reached after a voice vote which received total affirmation by participants.
During the meeting with theme: “uniting the party in support of Tinubu/Shettima renewed Hope Agenda”, participants went down memory lane on how the party was nurtured by those unconstitutionally suspended by Agballah to a level where it became attractive to all in the state.
Addressing the stakeholders, convener of the meeting, Commissioner Tor expressed displeasure over the manner Agballah has run the party aground.
She described Enugu APC under Agballah as ‘suspension party’, saying that members would no longer fold their arms and allow strangers who joined their fold from other political parties like Agballah to destroy the APC through illegal suspension.
Tor maintained that it was high time all the purportedly suspended stakeholders came back and rebuilt their house for the success of the President Tinubu and APC led Federal Government.
“We must possess our possession, so do not be discouraged by the activities of those currently piloting the affairs of the party who do not wish the party well, we must say enough is enough, how could somebody who say he wishes the party well keep suspending people who laboured for the party” she stated.
Also speaking , the immediate past chairman of the party, Dr Ben Nwoye said it is unthinkable for anybody to announce the suspension of big wigs of the party.
He condemned in its entirety the idea of piloting the affairs of the party as a private enterprise by the incumbent chairman, calling on the genuine members of the party to come back and rebuilt their political house.
Nwoye noted that the vote of no confidence on the chairman has shown that all is not well with the party in the state and needed the urgent intervention of the national secretariat to salvage the situation,stressing that the one envious APC has been turned into a laughing stock.
