The All Progressives Congress (APC), Appeal committee on the results of the recent Enugu ward congresses of the party has called on aggrieved members to submit petitions and or complaints to it.
Following disagreements among the party members on the various wards congresses of the party on July 31, the National Caretaker and convention Planning Committee inaugurated appeal committees for the state chapters.
The national body appointed Mr Ben Mikko as the chairman of the committee for Enugu, and Babagana Ajimi as the secretary alongside three other members.
A statement issued by Mikko and Ajimi on Thursday called on the aggrieved members in Enugu to submit their petitions and complaints to it immediately.
The statement said that “sequel to the just concluded ward congress of the All Progressives Congress, the ward congress appeal committee for Enugu State has been inaugurated.”
It stated that the committee was mandated to receive petitions and or complaints arising from the congress held on July 31.
“The committee hereby invites party members who were aspirants in the said congress to submit petitions/complaints to the committee from 9 am on August 13, to 5 pm on August 20.”
The statement requested that such petitions should be dropped at the APC South-East Zonal Secretariat, No 80 Nza Street, 6 Independence Layout, Enugu, or through the appeal committee’s email address.
The committee enjoined all parties to ensure that they filed their appeals within the stipulated time.
Meanwhile, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Dr Ben Nwoye, yesterday, explained that he had invited the Police and the Department of State Security Service (DSS), to take over the party secretariat to avert violence and bloodshed.
He told journalists in Enugu that he had invited the Police and DSS to the secretariat to avert loss of life, following reports that thugs, who had allegedly disrupted the party’s meeting on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, had reportedly planned to attack the office again.
Nwoye, who said no fewer than two police patrol teams occupied the secretariat and restricted movement of persons around the area since Tuesday, adding that the thugs were working for some disgruntled politicians, who had joined the APC from another political party.
He stated that he was concerned about the development and would not want the personal interest of any politician to lead to the shedding of blood in the state, stressing: that “The youths don’t deserve to die under any guise because the politicians’ children are not part of those they are engaging.”
Speaking further, he said: “The police were invited to ensure that there is no vandalism and loss of life in the office, and so, they are doing the work they are supposed to do.
“For someone at my level, I can’t watch lawlessness become the order of the day, thus, I reported the plan to the DSS and the Police because of the information available to us, and so, the report of police sealing our office is false. l,” he explained.
Nwoye maintained that the plot by some politicians to stain his hands with blood close to the end of his tenure as chairman of the party would not work.
“Nobody’s ambition is worth the life of anyone, young or old in Enugu because the state is a peaceful place,” he stressed.
No fewer than 100 suspected thugs were reported to have invaded and disrupted a meeting of the party on Tuesday, where some members were suspended for their alleged role in the production of fictitious names as elected ward executives of the party.
The suspected thugs had reportedly seized cameras of Television Continental (TVC) and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), reporters who were covering the meeting, but these were later recovered on the intervention of DSS officials.
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