The All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), in Abia State, has gotten a new chairman of the party, ABN TV Reports.
He is Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu. The renowned politician has taken over the secretariat of the party in the state.
Ukaegbu took over the secretariat following the April 7,2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division which confirmed him as the authentic chairman of the party in the state.
APGA had filed a motion asking the court to dismiss the judgment. But the court,on July 19 2022, dismissed the suit and awarded N200,000 cost against the party.
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Heavily armed policemen had yesterday taken over the area before Ukaegbu arrived the secretariat with over 15 members of the state executive council of the party.
The party executives later went into a meeting.
Ukaegbu told our reporter that his take over of the party secretariat followed the judgement of Owerri Appeal Court which confirmed him as the state Chairman of the party.
The party boss said he is on a rescue mission to retake APGA and return it to the vision of the founding fathers.
He further disclosed that founding members of the party have been calling on him to return to rescue APGA from those they described as political merchants.
‘He said; “We just took over the party secretariat. The party will sit down, review some issues. We just met for an hour and took some important decisions. I have the backing of 22 out of the 26 members of the State Executive members.”
Ukaegbu also disclosed that the state executive committee have suspended four members of the party including the former state chairman, Rev.Augustine Ehiemere; former state secretary, Sunday Onukwubiri; former state legal adviser, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro,and one other official ,over alleged embezzlement of N56m belonging to the party and sundry offences which contravened the APGA constitution.
He explained that Ehiemere has been sitting on the petition from APGA members over the alleged embezzlement.
On his alleged pact with the PDP, Ukaegbu dismissed the allegation as unfounded, stressing that the former chairman, Ehiemere, rather used the party as a tool of merchandize.
However, the former chairman, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, insisted that Ukaegbu’s tenure had expired in 2014.
