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Imo APGA explains choice of Ifeanyi Araraume for 2019 ballot

By Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri) and Matthew Ogune (Abuja)
22 October 2018   |   3:21 am
Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State, Peter Ezeobi, has said that the party’s choice of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as its governorship standard-bearer was collectively taken to ensure that the party emerges victorious in next year’s general elections. Speaking during the formal presentation of the party’s flag to Araraume at the…

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Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State, Peter Ezeobi, has said that the party’s choice of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as its governorship standard-bearer was collectively taken to ensure that the party emerges victorious in next year’s general elections.

Speaking during the formal presentation of the party’s flag to Araraume at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, Ezeobi disclosed that the party was handling the petitions from aggrieved aspirants.

Araraume, who arrived the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, to a tumultuous welcome by thousands of his supporters, urged the over 15 aggrieved aspirants to support him to emerge victorious next year.

But one of the governorship aspirants, Ike Ibe, disclosed that a new political association to be known as New All Progressives Grand Alliance (N-APGA) would be registered, with him as national chairman, due to the alleged injustice in the party.

The new group demanded that about N4 billion paid by various aspirants be refunded to them by the leadership of the party, inviting anti-graft and security agencies to take action.

In another development, APGA has charged the Apo appeal tribunal in Abuja on the need to declare the winner of the 2016 chairmanship election in Gwagwalada Council.

The chairman, Solomon Umezuruike, made this appeal on Saturday during a press briefing in Abuja.

Umezuruike lamented that if the judgement were not passed before the upcoming primary election, members of the party would be discouraged from purchasing nomination forms.

Meanwhile, a reconciliation committee has been raised by APGA National Working Committee (NWC) to reconcile the aspirants. The committee led by Chief Jerry Chukwueke, which is currently in Imo, will work for seven days.

However, Imo State Elders Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the weekend, rose from hours meeting at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, and put its seal on Chief Emeka Ihedioha as the governorship standard-bearer of the party.

Ratifying the primary that produced Ihedioha, the elders urged that the rift that led to the disapproval of an aspirant, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (a.k.a Sam Daddy), be resolved out of the present legal tussle.

Chaired by frontline politician, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the committee, with two former deputy governors in the state, Dr. Douglas Acholonu and Ebere Udeagu among others as members, hailed the PDP primary, opining that Ihedioha should be supported to win next year’s polls.

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