By Lawrence Njoku, Enugu
The Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally, held on Wednesday in Enugu, as a “monumental flop, which underscores an outright rejection of the party by Enugu State people.”
A statement issued, yesterday, by the Director of Communications and Spokesperson of the Enugu PDP Campaign Council, Nana Ogbodo, noted that the boycott of the presidential rally by notable leaders of the party in the state, has further validated its position that the crisis and recent protest against the state Chairman of the party, Ugochukwu Agballah, and the governorship candidate, Uche Nnaji, in Abuja, is a fight between aggrieved members and greedy, as well as conceited state party leadership.
“What else can be more humiliating than the embarrassing drama that played out live on national television yesterday?” Obodo asked.
The National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime; Senator Ayogu Eze, former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, Director General, Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, and other notable leaders and stakeholders of the party were all absent at the Enugu presidential rally.
Although the party leaders in the state were at the Enugu airport to receive the APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, they, however, boycotted the rally at the Okpara Square and converged on Chime’s residence where they addressed the press.
They told journalists that they were still insistent on their position during the August 2022 protest meeting with the party’s national leadership that they would not work with Agballah, whom they described as an imposter, and called on the party leadership to “do the right thing.”
Recall that the aggrieved members of the Enugu APC had, on Monday, staged a protest at the party’s national secretariat where they submitted a petition to the national leadership over what they described as acts of “impunity, gross misconducts, incompetence, divisiveness, maladministration and embezzlement of party funds,” totaling about N1.3 billion by Agballah and Nnaji.
The protesters, led by the leader of Concerned Enugu APC Members, Adolphus Ude, who is also pioneer Deputy Chairman of the party in the state, also drew the attention of the APC national leadership to the “fraudulent imposition of George Ogara as the party’s deputy governorship candidate, whereas the name and particulars of Chief Robert Ngwu were still contained in the records and website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the authentic deputy governorship candidate.”
Source: The Guardian
