‘You’re impostors, political jobbers’ – APGA Abia State fires former chairman, others

…Says, ‘Alex Otti our Leader, Okoro our Chairman’

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia State, has described the purported suspension of the party’s flag-bearer in the 2019 governorship election, Dr. Alex Otti, as part of the poorly written script by government of Abia State and agents of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to scuttle the liberation of the soul of the state and continue to hold it captive.

APGA’s immediate past chairman, Augustine Ehiemere and some other members who lost out at the party’s recent Congress that saw the emergence of new leadership, led by Hon. Nkem Okoro, had issued a statement suspending Dr. Otti from the party and also expelling the current party chairman, Hon. Okoro, for undefined reasons.

But in a statement earlier today, the state publicity secretary of the party, Hon. Ebere Uzoukwa, berated Ehiemere and his group, describing them as “impostors masquerading as executive members” of APGA.

“The leadership of APGA in Abia State, wishes to reiterate that the duo of Augustine Ehiemere and Sunday Onukwubiri do not belong to the executive of our great party at any level in the state hence they lack powers and authority to suspend Dr. Alex Otti,OFR or any other member of our great party.

“It is public knowledge that Ehiemere, Onukwubiri and a few dissidents from our party regrouped shortly after the 2019 general elections and shamelessly aligned with the People’s Democratic Party and Government of Abia State to frustrate Dr. Alex Otti’s petition at the Abia State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia.

“They suddenly offered themselves as willing tools and surrendered to the whims of our oppressors and enemies of the state to destabilize APGA and further sustain the sufferings occasioned by the maladministration and repulsive governance under the ruling People’s Democratic Party in the state,” Uzoukwa stated in his statement issued in Umuahia.

He added: “To further equip and energize these APGA/PDP political jobbers in this ill-fated and futile project, the PDP led government just recently engaged one Ukpai Ukairo, a charge-and-bail lawyer and PDP member from Ohafia LGA as Ehiemere’s lawyer to ambush the tribunal for the purpose of striking out APGA as the second petitioner in the case filed by Dr. Alex Otti, OFR challenging the sham called 2019 governorship election in Abia.

“We are therefore not surprised that these unscrupulous but political hawks have resorted to yet another wild goose chase, still orchestrated to deny Abians the much-yearned liberation as championed by Dr. Alex Otti, given his doggedness and determination geared towards unlocking the chains of political slavery in Abia.”

Uzoukwa subsequently urged party faithful, citizens and residents of Abia State and Nigerians in general to discountenance the announcement by Ehiemere and his group as they have become “political jobbers pay-rolled and funded by the PDP led Government of Abia State, to destabilize Abia APGA and derail the wheel of Justice at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.”