Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Victor Umeh, said the Peace, Reconciliation and Outreach Committee, set up by the Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, to reconcile all the aggrieved members, will soon end the political tussle between Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo and Honourable Michael Chukwuma Umeorji over who fly the party ticket in November 6th, 2021 governorship election in the state.
Umeh, who disclosed this to Journalists, shortly after the Committee meeting with some old aggrieved member, including Dr Mike Adams, from Delta State Chapter, Chief Ogometu Ukpenetus, from Cross River State Chapter and Alhaji Tayo Osowunni, from Ogun State, held at Destination Centre Awka, on Wednesday, said the ongoing political power tussle is a probe to Nigerians that APGA, remains the third largest and recognized political party in the country.
According to him, the reconciliation committee was set up by governor Willie Obiano, as the leader of the party, July this year, shortly after the guber primary to reconcile all aggrieved members including governorship aspirants who lose in the primary contest.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that Prof. Soludo and Hon. Umeorji has been in the political battle of who to fly the party ticket, shortly after a parallel primary election was held in which Victor Oye-led faction produce Soludo while Jude Okeke-led faction announces Umeorji as the party candidates respectively.
Umeh, who served as the Chairman of the Committeee, said the team have also held a closed-door meeting with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, wife of the late national leader of the party, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu, where she aggreed to work for the growth of the party.
He said that it had become necessary to bring members of the party in Anambra together as one family in order to successfully confront the various tasks ahead, especially, the forthcoming election.
According to Umeh, the party being a political organisation is bound to have its challenges and that the challenges would make the party more stronger.
“However, the important thing is that the ideals for which this party was established in 2002 must be protected no matter the interest anybody is pursuing in this party, he added.
The former senator, representing Anambra Central, meantained that APGA was the hope of the people of the South East in any political dispensation.
He appealed to Jude Okeke and his supporters to sheld their aggrieviances and allowed peace to reign in the party for the sake of the 2023 general election.
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