Chief Princewill Ukaegbu has been elected the new chairman of Action Peoples Party, APP in Abia State, ABN TV reports.
Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Abia state, the Action Peoples Party (APP) in the state is not leaving any stone unturned in making sure that the party emerges victorious at the polls.
At a brief meeting of the state executive council, LG chairmen, ward chairmen, and the candidates of the party at the party’s state secretariat in Umuahia today, Elder Mark Ugorji was unveiled as the campaign DG, while Elder Princewill Ukaegbu emerged as the new state chairman of the party to replace the outgone chairman, Chief Sylvanus Nwaji, who is contesting for the Federal House of Representatives Ukwa East/South Federal Constituency.
While handing over the mantle of leadership to Elder Ukaegbu, the erstwhile chairman, Chief Nwaji thanked Mascot Uzor Kalu, who doubles as the party’s governorship candidate and leader, for allowing him to serve meritoriously. He also besieged him and all the members of the party to give all the necessary support to the new chairman.
Elder Ukaegbu, a former Chairman of Umuahia North Local Government Area who recently defected to APP from APC, in his remarks he said
he has the chemistry of integrity, hard work, and honesty adding that the duty he has been called upon to do is the one of management of resources both humans which calls for a lot of integrity, Strength, and God’s grace.
“I am coming with the favor and mercy upon my life to pursue a course that will be in the better interest of Abians in the future”
“In every political dispensation it comes with the old identity, the dispensation we have now in this era is for a different platform, a different boil game. We are operating with a new electoral law that is bringing forth so many new things into the political system”
“There is nothing like big or small party we are talking about the credibility of the candidate”.
He further explained that the party governorship candidate Mascot Uzor Kalu is not too young to rule the state adding that people who are much more younger than him are ruling all over the world.
He said Mascot is a different entity and cannot take the share of his brother Sen Orji Uzor Kalu stressing that coming from the same womb does not matter anything. He can’t take his brother’s share nor will his brother do same, he has equal rights as though they are not in the same party.
