Soludo plans to disenfranchise Njoku-led APGA in Anambra LG polls – Party allege

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), led by Edozie Njoku, has accused Anambra State Governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of planning to prevent the party from participating in the upcoming local government elections.

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Okoro Chinedum Benedict, the National Administrative Secretary of APGA, stated during a visit to Anambra that thugs have been disrupting meetings of the party’s state and national officers in preparation for the council polls.

The party has vowed to resist any attempts to exclude them from the election, as they did over the course of five years to regain power within the party.

While briefing journalists, Okoro said: “Chief Edozie Njoku mandated this delegation of the National Working Committee (NWC) to inform you of his continued support and confidence in this special committee led by APGA National Secretary, Alhaji Muhyideen Imam.

“On August 7, 2024, our party wrote to ANSIEC, notifying them that INEC, in total obedience to the two Court of Appeal judgments, has recognized Chief Edozie Njoku and other executives elected at the Owerri Convention of May 31, 2019, as the authentic and rightful executives of APGA.

“The party introduced Hon. Chief Ikechukwu Hillary Ejesieme as Acting Chairman of APGA Anambra State and Hon. Sams Mogbo as Acting Secretary as the appropriate representatives of APGA in Anambra State and requested that ANSIEC acknowledge them in official communications and relations regarding the LG polls.

”The party said it was a surprise to them that despite acknowledging the letter, officials of the party have been denied access to meeting venues for the planning of the forthcoming council polls.

“It has become obvious to even the blind that despite the olive branch and reconciliatory overtures by the Chief Edozie Njoku-led APGA NWC, Governor Chukwuma Soludo has continued to engage in morbid machinations to diminish APGA just to stop the party under Chief Njoku from fielding candidates in the forthcoming LGA elections in Anambra State.

“We will not allow anyone to deny the long-suffering people in the hinterlands the benefits and good intentions of this brand new APGA,” the party said.