Enugu State Chapter of the All progressive Congress, APC, has called on ex-Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani; Minster of Foreign Affairs, Geophery Onyeama and former governor of the state, Barrister Sullivan Chime and other Stakeholders to halt the Coup d’etat against foundation legacy members of the defunct Congress for Progress Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN).
The state Publicity Secretary of APC, Mrs. Kate Ofor, who is also a legacy foundation member of the party made the call on Thursday in a statement made available to news men in Enugu.
“We had thought that the entry of prominent persons like His Excellencies Nnamani, Chime and Onyeama, among other high profile personalities, into the Enugu State chapter of the APC we translate to give electoral victory for the party in the state.
“However, one is appalled that the assemblage of these high profile persons seems to be leading to a clash of interest between the newcomers who flaunt their wealth and intimidate the foundation members of the party.
“We subscribe to the axiom that United we Win and Divided we Loose. Once more, we call on them to note that we lost the 2019 general elections in Enugu State principally because of the factionalism they unleashed during the 2018 State Congress.
“Therefore, we were alarmed when we woke up this morning to learn that Enugu APC secretariat has once more been sealed just like in 2018.
“We weep because one had assumed that the excellent reconciliation works of His Excellency Mai M.Buni led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has yielded result when Nnamani, Chime, Onyeama and Co publicly recognised Dr. Ben Nwoye as the authentic chairman of Enugu State APC.
Speaking further, Ofor said: “We plead with them to stop harassing Dr Ben Nwoye because one is at a loss to locate the reason or what happened between May this year and now when they jointly dropped Deacon Okey Ogbodo, their factional chairman, and endorsed and embraced Nwoye.
According to her, “Why did they wait until we seamlessly concluded our registration and revalidation exercise under Distinguished Senator Jonathan Zwingina? Are they angry that our numerical strength rose from 60,000 to 180,000 plus?
“Is it that they have phobia for elective or competitive congress? Or that they came from PDP background where selection/imposition is called consensus?
“The crux of the matter is why hijack the result sheets, as the almighty Result Sheets were not made available at the 260 wards during the recently conducted ward congresses in Enugu State and our so called leaders ungodly acquiesced to it.
“Whatever is the answer, they should do well to help erase the Nnamani, Chime, Onyeama and Co. entry trademark of incessant factionalism of our great party, the APC – a brand we constructed with sweat, toil and sacrifice.
“In actual fact, Nnamani, Chime, Onyeama & Co neither contributed much in spite of their humongous wealth nor attracted followers to APC; all they dished out is anti-party factionalism, exhibited crudely during the 2018 State Congress. When thugs were used to truncate our State Congress.
“Finally, I once more appeal to them to halt the coup d’etat against the legacy foundation members of the APC, for we don’t want distractions as we are better organized today and more mobilised to win Enugu State gubernatorial and legislative elections.”
