AA appoints acting chairman, scribe

The national think tank of Action Alliance (AA) has ratified the indefinite suspension of its national chairman, Chief Kenneth Udeze and the national secretary, Vernimbe James, and subsequently appointed Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar acting national chairman and Mr Eli Moses, acting national secretary.

The decision was taken at a meeting over the weekend in Abuja, the highest decision making body deliberated on the allegations levelled against them and upheld the initial suspension order.

The meeting, which was also attended and supervised by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), looked at the allegation that the duo made away with party property.

According to the acting national chairman, the suspended officials failed to conduct meetings, and allegedly absconded with party secretariat key and other things.

Similarly, the acting secretary said the party has abided by INEC guidelines on reopening its office and did not resort to self-help.

“The values we have for our house and because the house was locked by somebody who was in the party before, we decided not to break into the house. By INEC guidelines, a two third of executives can hold a meeting anywhere and this is why you even have INEC officials monitoring this meeting and the Secretariat will be reopened shortly.

The party chairman in Imo state, Hon Uchendu Ahanekwu, who spoke on behalf of the state chapters, applauded the decision saying it would restore sanity.

“The highest organ of our party has spoken. They have also reversed the unilateral decision of the suspended chairman who claimed to have dissolved the Imo, Lagos, Osun and Oyo states chapters”, he explained.

Speaking on its Imo governorship candidate, the party it is in full support of Uche Nwosu’s ambition to “reclaim his governorship mandate in the state”.

“It is so unfortunate what is happening today especially in my state, Imo. Only God knows how he does his things that a very vibrant and astute politician of Imo state extraction came into the party with a whole lot of credentials. We won comfortably 8 houses of assembly and two federal constituency seats.

“However, we have other cases in court like in Okigwe, Imo North, we are hopeful where INEC is yet to declare a winner and we are very close to victory.

“In all this, our former national chairman in person of Kenneth Udeze who ab initio was not helpful to the party in the state and didn’t do anything for us, we kept faith believing he will have a change of mind but it came to a height where he connived with the PDP in Imo state to deny us of our victory. And he said we won’t have a headway with Uche Nwosu at the tribunal.

“It is very disheartening that a man who claims to be learned will go on air to say that the party has withdrawn from the case which is still before the tribunal. I want to assure Nigerians that the purported sack of Imo state executive and those of other states is a nullity because he (Udeze) had since been suspended earlier in June”, he stressed.

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