Over 70% of Abia PDP aspirants on their way to APGA - BoT member * Chikwe Udensi absent as APGA aspirants sign peace accord

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Over 70% of Abia PDP aspirants on their way to APGA – BoT member

* Chikwe Udensi absent as APGA aspirants sign peace accord

By Steve Oko

Over 70 per cent of aspirants seeking election under the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, disenchanted by the party’s conduct of the three-man delegate congress as well as the House of Assembly and House of Representatives primaries, held on Sunday, are said to be on their way to the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA.

Member of APGA Board of Trustees, Chief Ahamdi Nweke, who made the claims Monday in Umuahia, while addressing APGA aspirants who came to sign peace accord, revealed that high level negotiations were going on between the leadership of the party and the affected aspirants.

He disclosed that high profile PDP aspirants who were aggrieved over the impunity in the party would soon defect to APGA along with their teeming supporters.

APGA leadership had Sunday visited Senate Minority Leader and Senator representing Abia Central, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, to woo him.

The delegation promised to give him the Senatorial ticket for his zone if he so wished but Abaribe, while responding, asked for time to consult with his constituents and political associates.

Meanwhile, various aspirants seeking election into different offices in the 2023 election in Abia State under the platform of APGA, have signed peace accord for peaceful conduct ahead of the party’s primaries.

However, one of the party’s major governorship aspirants, Chief Chikwe Udensi, was conspicuously at the event which held at the state secretariat of the party in Umuahia.

Reason for his absence was not disclosed but other governorship aspirants including Professor Greg Ibe, and Gen. Ijioma N. Ijioma (retd ), were all present along with other aspirants.

Addressing the aspirants, APGA Chairman, Rev Augustine Ehiemere, charged them to adopt the spirit of sportsmanship and support whoever emerges at the primaries as the party’s flag bearers.

He warned that the party would not hesitate to sanction including suspending any aspirant who forments trouble or resorts to violence.

In a remark, APGA Leader in the state, and member representing Aba South state consituency, Hon. Obinna Ichita, charged the aspirants to be united and work to deliver the party in 2023.

Ichita boasted that APGA would take over Abia State in 2023, saying that the ruling PDP, will not survive the current controversy trailing the conduct of its three man delegate congress and primaries.

He said that APGA had become the only party that the South East could use to renegotiate the zone back into relevance in the country’s political equilibrum.

Hon. Ichita urged Ndigbo to ensure APGA sweeps all the South Eastern states in the 2023 election, adding that other states in the zone need to join in the transformation trajectory being witnessed in APGA-controlled Anambra State.

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