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National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Edozie Njoku, has cautioned the Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, not to rubbish the party in the forthcoming council election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently recognised Njoku as the chairman of the party following a court order; a move that reportedly did not go down well with some party members.
The national chairman, at a press briefing in Awka, the state capital, alleged that Soludo, through the state Assembly, hurriedly amended the about two-week old electoral law of the state just to frustrate the party’s moves to participate in the forthcoming council election billed to hold in September. Njoku, who spoke through the national administrative secretary of the party, Okoro Benedict, said efforts to frustrate the party and its officers in Anambra will fail.
“We are compelled by these illogical and unlawful developments to conclude that the recent attempts at amendment of a two-week old Anambra State Electoral Law, leaves more to be desired.
“Many observers and patriotic Anambra citizens have expressed dismay that such flagrant display of paranoia and inordinate quest for dictatorial powers should drive the governor into hasty return to Anambra State House of Assembly to amend twice, a law that was yet to be subjected to public use.
“It has become obvious to even the blind that despite the olive branch and reconciliatory overtures by the Njoku-led APGA NWC, the governor has continued to engage in morbid machinations to diminish APGA just to stop the party under Njoku from fielding candidates in the forthcoming local government elections in Anambra State,” Njoku said.
Meanwhile, APGA leaders in the state who attended the parley passed a vote of confidence in the Njoku-led National Working Committee and the National Vice Chairman (South East) of the party, Tony-Uche Ezekwelu, saying they were confident that the new APGA leaders would move the party forward.
