Abia 2023 Guber: Ikechi Emenike not our party candidate – APC founding members

The forum of founding APC members  who were led by the immediate past Ndume ward chairman of the party, Mr Nnamdi Ohaeri, made their feelings known on Friday, against the outcome of the recent parley convened by Abia state representaive at Nigeria Population Commission and former Abia Commissioner of Finance, Chief Paul Johnny Nwabuisi at his Ihie Ndume Ibeku residence in umuahia, the state capital, to drum support for 2023 governorship ambition of the state factional party leader, Mr Ikechi Emenike

Recall that Nwabuisi had led a group of few members of the All Progressives Congress to host Emenike wherein they pledged to work towards ensuring the  emergence of the factional APC candidate as the next Governor of the state in the upcoming elections this year by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He also told Emenike and entourage that party members numerous teeming supporters of  the party will garner over 30,000 votes cast to ensure he win the  Abia governorship seat election fixed in March this by the Nigeria electoral commission.

Earlier while making their feelings known, the forum of APC founding members faulted the animous declaratory statements and misrepresentations of general opinions of majority of party members and teeming supporters in ndume ibeku ward and umuahia north local government area by Nwabuisi and co-travellers on Emenike’s purported endorsement, and further insisted they lacked moral right to convene party meetings, such as the recent illegal meeting and charade stage-managed by Nwabuisi, and bankrolled by the factional party leader.

According to the forum, Mr Johnny Nwabuisi and lackeys did not consult anyone in Ndume ward chapter of the APC about the kangaroo meeting cum endorsement of Ikechi Emenike he is purporting round the state.

“Major party leaders, critical  stakeholders and teeming  population of our party members are not aware about the purported endorsement. All they had said during that parley with Emenike are mere expression of individual and personal opinions, and does not reflect to the general opinions of APC members in ndume ibeku ward of umuahia north local government area in Abia stat e.

“And we would want to use this great fora to remind them that Abia APC has one gubernatorial candidate in Abia state in the person of the former minister of the federal republic of Nigeria, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah (OON).

“The attendees sitting under the hired canopies and chairs at the venue of the illegal meeting cum charade are not members of APC in Ndume ward. These are political jobbers and merchants, whose trade-in-stock and penchance are well known and shrouded on stomach Infrastructure.

The forum further  reminded Nwabuisi and co-travellers that APC constitution only recognizes the primary election which elected the immediate past Minister of the federal republic of Nigeria, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, as the All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial candidate in Abia state held on 26th May 2022, and also hinged their latest stand to earlier court judgement by a federal high court in Abuja which sacked Mr Ikechi Emenike and affirmed Ogah as the authentic gubernatorial candidate of the party in Abia state for this year’s election.

The Abia APC forum expressed utmost optimisms and implicit confidence in judiciary arm of government in Nigeria in delivering justice against open robbery of the mandate unanimously entrusted to Ogah by the majority of party members who participated and voted during the concluded gubernatorial primary election held by the leadership of the APC in the state.

The forum also reiterated their unparalleled support and total affirmation of Ogah as the main All Progressives Congress gubernatorial ticket-bearer for the upcoming elections in Abia this year and confided Ogah possesed the needed competence and expertises to entrench true democratic governance that will foster rapid transformation in all important sectors of Abia economy geared to improving livelihoods, and critical infrastructure in Abia state when supported to become governor in march this year’s elections in the states of Nigeria federation.

The forum of APC founding members in ndume ibeku ward in umuahia north local government area in Abia state, warned that its members will not hesitate to compel the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to take disciplinary action against any party members who indulge in anti-party activities or display gross misconducts as the leadership does not condone negative tendencies capable to truncate the successes it has recorded in its development.

Words: “we call on ward executive members of our great APC to commence discplinary action and sanctions against these disloyal party stalwarts in Abia because, Abia chapter of APC is totally poised to deal with whatever stumbling block and bottlenecks that are capable of truncating the ample opportunity of the party  to form next government in Abia come this year. We also using the medium to inform the general teeming members of our party acrosd the 184 electoral wards of the seventeen(17)  local government areas in Abia, and indeed the general public to ignore the shenanigans and the charade arranged by Mr Paul Johnny Nwabuisi and political hirelings as their purported  endorsement does not represent the general views of party members in Ndume ward in Umuahia north local government area of Abia central senatorial district in the state”.