The leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) under National Chairman, Ozonkpu Victor Ike Oye, is intact and working hard to deliver Anambra state in the November 6 governorship election in the state.
National Publicity Secretary of the party Tex Okechukwu disclosed this in response and to deny a purported the suspension of some select national officers of the party.
We wish to state without any equivocation as follows:
Okechukwu recalled than at in an AIT live broadcast recently, some guests he described as “a band of political buccaneers and misfits gathered under the guise of NEC” to create the false impression the Ike-led APGA was suspended.
The APGA spokesman said “the so-called Jude Okeke and his cohorts are not officers or financial members of our great party and, therefore, did not have any powers to speak on behalf of the party,” adding that “that there was never a time our national chairman, Ozonkpu Victor Oye convened a NEC meeting of the party or any other meeting of the party for that matter”
Okechukwu noted that only the national chairman of the party, mandated by Article 13 of the constitution of APGA 2019, that can convene meetings of NWC, NEC and National Convention, saying “as we wrote, no such meeting had been convened.”
“The Supreme Court has made it expressly clear that only the National Convention of a political party could remove the National Chairman of a registered political party,” the statement said adding that “the so-called NEC meeting on AIT was a political hatchet job to create undue tension in the party and misdirect our teeming members. But it was dead on arrival.”
Okechukwu said the APGA is determined to bring the full weight of the law to bear on mischief makers and their sponsors whom he accused were bent on causing disaffection among our members.
“The law enforcement agents have been placed on full alert to deal ruthlessly with anybody fomenting trouble in the party as APGA remains a peaceful, law-abiding party where peace, justice and equity prevail,” and urged members of the party and the general public to disregard the AIT “rabble rousers”.
