19/2/2013 7:00pm
APGA’s internal strife shows no signs of abating.

by Festus Owete
The newly-appointed Acting National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Maxi Okwu, may have been barred from entering the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, foreclosing early resolution of the crisis in the party.
A party official, who prefers anonymity, told PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday that the new National Working Committee, NWC, backed by the Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has no business at the secretariat located at 41B Libreville Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, and referring to them as ‘usurpers.’

“They have no business here and they should not come close to this place,” the official said. “They are usurpers and illegal and they know this and they should not come here.”
Mr. Okwu was adopted to replace Victor Umeh as acting chairman after a meeting of a caucus of the party in Abuja last Saturday. Sani Shinkafi, who is the National Secretary of the faction led by Mr. Umeh was asked to retain his position while a former Minister of Health, Tim Menakaya, was appointed chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, BOT.

The appointments were made in response to the judgment of an Enugu High Court, which sacked Mr. Umeh and other members of the NWC on the ground that their election breached Section 18 of the party’s constitution.
Efforts to speak with Mr. Umeh on the development failed as he could not be reached even though he was cited at the secretariat when PREMIUM TIMES visited.
Several telephone calls to his mobile telephone were not responded to, while Mr. Shinkafi’s mobile telephone was also switched off.
The party’s National Director of Publicity, Iheanacho Oguejiofor, refused to comment when PREMIUM TIMES sought to speak with him.

We’ll get another secretariat
Mr. Okwu, however, said his team would not fight over the national secretariat now manned by a gun-wielding policeman who was drafted to join the security team apparently to forestall trouble from the opposing faction.

“We don’t need it. We are opening a new secretariat,” he told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview, adding that the new secretariat would be in place when he returns from a trip to Lagos next week.
At the height of the crisis last year, Mr. Obi led a group of party members to appoint Sadiq Massala and Ifedi Okwema as National Chairman and Secretary of the Party respectively.

Mr. Massala, who allegedly felt betrayed by the governor, has also declared publicly that he is leading a faction of APGA quite distinct from the one led by Mr. Okwu who himself was once a Deputy National Chairman of the Party before he left to float Citizens Popular Party, CPP.

Mr. Umeh was quoted in the media on Tuesday as saying that Mr. Obi has no power under APGA’s constitution to convene a meeting of the crisis-ridden party to pick a new acting chairman and secretary, insisting that he had already appealed the judgment.
The embattled party boss said he was elected to replace the founding national chairman of the party, Chekwas Okorie, in 2006, adding that he is currently running his second term of four years which would expire next year.

CFCfan:

Kai, see as you finish am .

Anyway, with these crises, APGA's place in the new APC is surely in jeopardy.

Onlytruth: The only party that gains from APGA's factionization is PDP because PDP is closest on the ground in SE. With what is going on now, Peter Obi might simply move all his political assets into PDP and Anambra will become a PDP state once more. If that happens, its game over for APGA in SE.
As for APC, people in much of SE will blame it for dismembering APGA and shun it like plague. Perhaps this is all for good.

CFCfan: Anyway, with these crises, APGA's place in the new APC is surely in jeopardy.

Mad Cow: ROCHAS OKOROCHA MUST DIE!!!!!!!!


Death to that Obese Ibari Ogwa Drunkard.

chiover: . Truely speaking you are a mad cow. So u want a man to die bcx of simple politics Ayayayayayaya u hate the nation so much mr man

For you to describe Politics as "simple" means you cant tell the difference between Politics and hair-dressing..

This is a discussion for men, go and fix weave-on on your head and stay out of this matter..




#KillRochasOrDieTrying... _{Enough is Enough for these Imo State People..}

Onlytruth: The only party that gains from APGA's factionization is PDP because PDP is closest on the ground in SE. With what is going on now, Peter Obi might simply move all his political assets into PDP and Anambra will become a PDP state once more. If that happens, its game over for APGA in SE.
As for APC, people in much of SE will blame it for dismembering APGA and shun it like plague. Perhaps this is all for good.

Mad Cow: ROCHAS OKOROCHA MUST DIE!!!!!!!!


Death to that Obese Ibari Ogwa Drunkard.

APC will not win a single position worthy of Note in the SE.

APC is a Yoruba + Hausa Polictical party. Rochas and his crew have once more sold the Igbos to the Mmanus and Ugwus.

OBI shall surely truimph, even if it solely for the purpose of putting that Afor Nsi Owerri to shame.

Gennyz: The Igbos love APGA,but those in Anambra state hate Peter Obi,to support wht am saying his support for Dora Akuyili was wht ruined her ambition frm been a senator, if u get to Onitsha u wil weep for Anambra,if u go to Akwa d same.

Bliss4Lyfe: This is very simply, APGA needs to forget about Okorocha(Imo) and focus on Abia and Ebonyi State.

In the East People voted Rochas because of APGA nothing else and Obi has retained power because of APGA nothing else.

APGA will definately produce Governors in Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra come 2015.

Soludo should join and campaign under APGA 2014. Politicians are usually flexible.

Without APGA, it is back to square one again for ndiigbo.

Why is dis just too hard to understand that Nigeria is not the UK/US and two party system can't operate just yet in our young democracy.

A third party will be the power breaker, take the UK for example with Cameron Conservative Party only winning with the help of Liberal Party.(power sharing)

South east politicians will be doll to allow ACN/CPC(APC) destroy something they had worked tirelessly to build right at its peak.
WHERE WAS THE FOUNDATION. IN POLITICS. WHAT MATTERS IS WHERE YOUR INTEREST IS. WE ARE NO LONGER ON THE POLITICS OF NPN AND NPP. OKOROCHA AND NGIGE ARE PLAYING THE RIGHT POLITIC AND NOT PERVERTED POLITICS AS YOU ARE SUGGESTING.

Mad Cow: ROCHAS OKOROCHA MUST DIE!!!!!!!!


Death to that Obese Ibari Ogwa Drunkard.

APC will not win a single position worthy of Note in the SE.

APC is a Yoruba + Hausa Polictical party. Rochas and his crew have once more sold the Igbos to the Mmanus and Ugwus.

OBI shall surely truimph, even if it solely for the purpose of putting that Afor Nsi Owerri to shame.