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BREAKING: Attempt to hijack APGA’s 3-man delegate election aborted  * Fake returning officer arrested, guber aspirant fingered *No longer buz as usual – Gen Ijioma

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BREAKING: Attempt to hijack APGA’s 3-man delegate election aborted
* Fake returning officer arrested, guber aspirant fingered
*No longer buz as usual – Gen Ijioma
By Steve Oko
Attempt to hijack the three-man delegate election of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State was Tuesday aborted.
A fake returning officer allegedly recruited by one of the governorship aspirants was arrested in Bende Local Government Area with fake unfilled result sheets, unauthorized APGA stamp and stamp pad.
The suspect handed over to the police was later detained at the Central Police Station Umuahia.
Briefing newsmen on the development, APGA Leader in the state and member representing Aba South state constituency, Hon. Obinna Ichita, said the suspect and others were allegedly engaged by a desperate governorship aspirant who wanted to hijack the congress.
The lawmaker said “APGA believes in internal democracy that guarantees equal opportunity to all and cannot tolerate any form of impunity”.
His words: ” An incident occurred in Bende LGA where somebody was caught and he claimed that he was engaged by one of the governorship aspirants.
” He was arrested and handed over to the police. The situation would have caused serious crisis but for my intervention as aggrieved party members wanted to lynch the suspect.
” You know the security situation in the land now particularly South East is such that no room should be given for escalation. People are growing impatient with undemocratic process”.
The lawmaker who said that the congress was successful and generally peaceful across the state except in few wards where sponsorsed hoodlums attempted to hijack the process but were stoutly resisted by party faithful.
” I wonder how somebody can think that APGA which we nurtured and defended with our blood till this time when the party is about taking over power in the state can be hijacked? It’s not possible!”
The APGA Leader who said that impunity and other undemocratic tendencies common in other political parties would not be tolerated in APGA, warned desperate politicians in the party to have a rethink “as nobody will be allowed to convert APGA into personal estate”.
When contacted, the State Secretary of the party, Elder Sunday Onukwubiri, said that the name of the said suspect was not among the returning officers sent to conduct the exercise.
According to him, ward Chairmen and LGA party Chairmen are to server as Returning officers in their wards and councils respectively,  while the three-man Congress Committee from Abuja will serve as the Returning officers for the state.
He said that similar attempts were reported in few wards but party members resisted the hired touts and they fled.
The Scribe said that “APGA which has become the beautiful bride in Abia now cannot be allowed to be pocketed by any desperado”.
He said the party would ensure due process and internal democracy in the process that would produce its candidates for the 2023 elections.
Reacting to the incident, one of the governorship aspirants, Gen. Ijioma N. Ijioma (retd.) who confirmed he saw the arrested suspect , said the incident was a signal that the era of impunity and illegalities was gone.
” The incident tells you that things are not going to be the way it used to be before. People are now more aware. So, people are no longer going to get away with illegalities they used to engage in before”.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer PPRO in the state, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said he had not received situation report of any such incident.
 
Meanwhile, some sources accused some highly-placed chieftains of the party at the centre of conniving with the said aspirant to manipulate the  congress in his favour but said they had failed.
One of the sources told Wawa News Global the the aspirant behind all the manipulations “should be disqualified because his attitude has shown he is unfit to be governor”.
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