It has been deemed unfounded and a smokescreen that the suspension of some All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains in the South East has been approved.
According to news sources, Dr. Ben Nwoye, the outgoing APC chairman in Enugu State, made this claim in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Recall that the South East leadership of the APC had previously declared the suspension of several individuals for alleged anti-party activities, including the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, the former Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama.
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Others include Nwoye, Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), and Eugene Odoh, the former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly.
Nwoye responded by claiming that the South East leadership’s decision to suspend the party led by Dr. Ijeomah Aridiogu was an effort to hide their anti-party activities during the general elections in 2023.
The former APC chairman emphasized that the region’s APC executive members were to blame for the party’s poor showing in the general election of 2023 because of their anti-party activities.
He said that during the presidential and governorship elections, Aridiogu and Ugochukwu Agballa, the APC chairman in Enugu State, openly collaborated with the Labour Party in the South East Zone. This pair, he claimed, was responsible for the large number of votes the opposition party received.
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Nwoye argued that none of the suspensions would have required approval by the South East APC, noting that none of the people identified in the article had been removed from their local governments or wards as required by party law.
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