No Leadership Crisis In Ebonyi Chapter Of APC-Chieftain

• ” It has become expedient that I react to the publication alleging leadership crisis in our great party over the appointment of Okoro-Emegha as chairman, Caretaker Committee of APC in Ebonyi.

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Chief Eze Nwachukwu, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi, says there is no leadership crisis in the state chapter of the party, as alleged in some media reports.

Nwachukwu, also the state’s Commissioner for Inter Governmental Affairs disclosed this at a news on Saturday in Abakaliki.

He said that the reports were the figment of imagination of those peddling them.

Nwachukwu, also the immediate past state chairman of APC, said that APC under the leadership of Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha had remained peaceful and united in the state.

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He urged the public, supporters and party faithful to discountenance the said report adding that the party would not give room to detractors to destabilise it.

“I am the immediate past chairman of APC and the emergence of Okoro-Emegha as the current chairman, caretaker committee is a welcome development and it followed laid down legal and constitutional provisions of our party.

“As the leader of the State Working Committee (SWC) I and other members stepped aside when the national leadership of the party led by Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe came here and inaugurated the committee which we all accepted.

“We know it in principle as enshrined in our party constitution in 2013 that if a governor joins the party, he automatically takes over the party structure.

“This provision made it possible for Saraki and Mr Rotimi Amaechi as then governors of Kwara and Rivers respectively to take over the APC structure in their states during the member from the New PDP,” he said.

“Umahi took over the party structure and in his magnanimity, blended it to include old APC members and those who joined the party with the governor from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).