A former commissioner in the administration of ex-Anambra State Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Sir Azuka Okwuosa, has declared his interest to run in the November 6 governorship election as an All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.
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As the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) steps up its programme of reforms under the party’s current interim national leadership, KUNLE ODEREMI writes on the forces and counter-forces that will be at work during its membership re-validation and registration exercise beginning next Monday across the country.
THE phased battle for the separation of the boys from the men is already in an upward swing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). From Monday, the major stakeholders will begin to stake their pride in the quest to control the main structures of the seven-year-old party, as it commences the membership re-validation and registration across the country. It is an opportunity for the power centres to showcase their strengths and capabilities in political brinkmanship and deftness. As from January 25, 2021, old power brokers will try to consolidate their grip on the lever of the party in their strongholds. Others will attempt to break down the walls erected by su
PDP said the tears of APC has just started “pouring” in the State.
APC had described the claim of 3,000 of its members defecting to PDP as a “tales by moonlight.”
PDP’s State Chairman, Asiforo Okere during a stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahia, the state capital, said the decampees were also from the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
But, APC rubbished the defection claim by Okere.
However, the party’s state Publicity Secretary, Fabian Nwankwo pointed out to Abia APC that their “tears has only just started pouring and very soon, your crying will graduate into mourning”.
In a statement he signed and forwarded to DAILY POST, Nwankwo wondered “why anyone in their right senses would doubt the defection of Abians to the PDP seeing the sterling performances of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu which are so good that even more Abians have been inundating us with requests to join the PDP.”
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