Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, Mr. Nwafor Alphonsus Onyeachonam, has warned factional chairman, Barr Ugochukwu Agballah, against disobeying a further court order.
An Enugu State High Court had previously barred Agballah and other members of the party’s State Working Committee from carrying out their duties after they were suspended by other SWC members.
However, Agballah convened a stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday, where the SWC members involved in his suspension were equally suspended.
In response, Onyeachonam’s leadership released a statement saying, “We have quashed the purported suspension of our party leaders. We plead with our party leaders and other aggrieved members of the party to please come back to the fold to build a stronger APC in Enugu State.”
The statement further said, “The APC will be participating in the 2024 local government elections in Enugu state. Previous gaffe by the rested chairman in the contrary should be discarded into the trash bin as our party has made every arrangement to participate and win all Chairmanship and councillorship positions in the 260 wards in the forthcoming council polls in Enugu state.”
Onyeachonam’s leadership also pledged support to the President and National Chairman, saying, “We pledge our support and solidarity to the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Chairman of the APC, Dr. Abudlahi Ganduje. We promise our unalloyed support to work harder to ensure that the APC redefines its strength in Enugu state and in the entire south east.”
The statement also criticized Agballah, saying, “We urge the President to ignore opportunists such as Ugochukwu Agballah who is seeking to be given appointment after ensuring that the APC lost in Enugu state. We urge the presidency to ask Agballah to approach the political party that he worked for in the 2023 election for appointment.”
Additionally, the statement noted, “We have taken note of the aberration and impersonations that took place on Saturday August 24 in our party office at GRA Enugu, where Ugochukwu Agballah converged with co-travellers despite the court order prohibiting him from such impersonation.”
The statement concluded by saying, “The general public are hereby notified that the court order restraining Ugochukwu Agballah and co from parading themselves as executive members of the Enugu state Chapter of the APC is still in force. The National secretariat of the APC and the general public are therefore updated with this development.”
