The leadership crisis engulfing the All Progressives Grand Alliance took a new turn on Thursday when APGA National Chairman Sly Ezeokenwa warned the party’s founding chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, to steer clear of Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo.
Okorie had threatened to sanction the former Central Bank of Nigeria governor on Wednesday over his refusal to recognise and align with the party’s factional chairman, Edozie Njoku.
While insisting that they had repeatedly extended an olive branch to Soludo, Okorie expressed concerns that the governor’s actions have consistently undermined APGA’s values, leaving them with no choice but to activate the party’s disciplinary measures for anti-party activities.
However, the Ezeokenwa-led faction of the party, loyal to Soludo, countered these claims, alleging that the true motive of Okorie and his supporters was to extort the governor.
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