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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that the struggle for ministerial slots of the incoming administration has led to the myriad of suspensions of party members.
The chieftain, who craved anonymity, told Sunday Telegraph that since the presidential and governorship elections, the party has been engulfed by crisis leading to suspension of members. The litany of the suspensions has cut across states like Delta Abia, Enugu and many others.
In Delta, the Chairman of the NDDC, Lauretta Onochi and the governorship candidate of APC in the state, Deputy Senate President, Senator Victor Ovie Omo-Agege have been suspended. In suspending Omo-Agege, the state Chairman, of the party, Ulebor Isaac, on behalf of the State Executive Committee of the APC, Secretary, Inana Michael, and 23 others, unanimously in the expulsion letter, resolved and adopted the expulsion of Omo-Agege as a member of the party by the executive committee of the Orogun Ward and Ughelli North Local Government Chapter.
The letter reads: “The State Executive Committee of all Progressive Congress, Delta State, in a meeting held on the 31st March, 2023 at the State Secretariat, Asaba, after due deliberation of the Notice of Resolution of Expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as a member of the party by the executive committee of the Orogun ward and Ughelli North Local Government chapter dated 20th March, 2023.
“And in accordance with the provision of Article 21.2 (1)(II)(VII) 21.3 and 21.5(g) of the Constitution 2022 (as amended) we unanimously resolved and adopted the expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo Agege as a member of the party. Omo-Agege, the governorship candidate of the APC in Delta State lost to the Governor-elect, a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sheriff Oborevwori. Also Lauretta Onochi was also suspended by some factions of Delta APC.
In Abia State, seven chieftains including former Abia State governor, Dr. Chris Akomas, former Minister of State for Solid Minerals, Dr. Uche Ogah, former Pro-chancellor of University of Calabar, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, the Executive Secretary of the National Land Development Agency(NALDA), Paul Ikonne, Hon. Sam Onuigbo and others.
Also suspended were Director General of VON, Osita Okechukwu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Ken Nnamani, former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, and others for alleged anti-party activities. Okechukwu, reacting to his suspension said, “The story of my kinsman Ugo Agbala is the story of a failed chairman quarreling with himself. He came from PDP akin to a political bandit and hijacked our great party with the assistance of His Excellency, Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo State.
