The suspension of Owelle Rochas Okorocha of
Imo State by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has been attributed to
his attempt to drag the party to the newly registered All Progressives Congress
(APC), APGA national chairman, Chief Victor Umeh has said.
Umeh,
who was flanked by APGA national leaders, made this known in Abuja yesterday.
According
to him, at no point was the party (APGA) interested in APC, which was formed by
the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC),
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of APGA led by Okorocha.
Umeh
said that, “For some months now, the news had been that APGA had been part of
this merger discussion and we went into a meeting to clear this wrong
impression so that Nigerians will know that APGA was at no time involved in
those discussions, but you will recall that the Governor Rochas Okorocha has
been at the forefront of the merger talks. He initially said he was there on
his own and because he is a governor, we could not rein him in at the time, and
we were very patient to see if this thing will clear out, but we are aware that
on Wednesday, INEC registered APC and announced that three parties merged to
form the All Progressives Congress and proceeded to withdraw the certificates
of the three parties: ANPP, CPC and ACN, but starting from Thursday, people in
APC started placing advertorials in the newspapers rejoicing over the new
party.
“In
each of the advertorials, they always exerted APGA logo as part of the parties
that merged. We considered this to be very mischievous and unacceptable. For
two days now, on Thursday the governor of Lagos State placed advertorials in
four national dailies that we could see with APGA logo conspicuously present
there. Yesterday (on Friday), the Governor of Nasarawa State followed
suit by placing an advertorial again with APGA logo. Umeh said the decision to
suspend Governor Okorocha is “to cut off the branch from where APC is
infiltrating the rank of APGA”
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