Imo, Anambra APGA pledge loyalty to Jude Okeke, disown Victor Oye’s faction

Ahead of the Anambra State governorship election fixed for November this year, a major political realignment is currently ongoing within the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). 

It was gathered that already, a joint strategic meeting of the Imo and Anambra State chapters of the party was held  in Awka, the State on Saturday on the poll

According to credible sources to the party, the joint meeting which was chaired by Imo State APGA Chairman Chief Chibuike Ogbonna and hosted by his Anambra Counterpart, was meant to nap out  strategies that would lead to the party’s victory in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

It was that all the party’s stakeholders in the two states attended the meeting which was presided over by the chairman of the party in Imo State, Chief Chibuike Ogbonna. 

Also in attendance, according to our source, were all chairmen of the party in all the local governments in the two states to show solidarity the Party’s candidate in the coming gubernatorial poll

It was gathered that at the end of the meeting, all the critical stakeholders pledged their loyalty to Jude Okeke as the party’s national chairman and disowned  Chief Victor Oye’s faction while they also ratified the choice of Chukwuma Umeoji as the party’s candidate in the election. 

They also endorsed Prof Lilian Orogbu as Umeoji’s running mate for the election. 

According to the party’s stakeholders, “there is no going back on the candidature as they vowed to work hard to ensure their victory in the election. 

The Imo State Chairman of the party,  Chibuike Ogbonna who confirmed the story on Telephone told Tribune Online that the stakeholders were set to announce a joint campaign council to help strengthen the party ahead of the lifting of the ban on political campaigns by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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