All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) House of Representatives candidate of Bende federal constituency seat of Abia state in the last general elections, Nnamdi Udensi, has declared that the party is at the verge of collapse.
According to him, the APGA under the present leadership of Chief Ozonkpu Victor Oye, saying the recent mass exodus from the once thriving party in the South-east was largely due the chairman’s style of leadership.
Udensi insisted that the exit of many party leaders and stakeholders from APGA was due to the alleged impunity that was perpetrated during the 2018 primaries by Oye and his hirelings.
The APGA chieftain, who stated this Wednesday in Umuahia, asserted that the alleged impunity led the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) losing many elective positions during the 2019 general elections in South East region,
“It had collapsed already. PDP took Victor Umeh senatorial seat. In Abia, the crisis is irreconcilable. APGA is indeed already going”.
He, therefore, called for a total restructuring of the party so as to enable APGA regain its lost ground ahead of future elections, reiterating that the party has lost its strongholds in Abia and South-east occasioned by the ill-treatment meted to majority of the APGA aspirants who were jostling for ticket during the primary elections.
But in a swift reaction, the Secretary of APGA in Abia state, Elder Sunday Onukwubiri, has dismissed the purported defection of APGA members to the PDP, saying it was the figment of imagination of the authors.
About 400 members of APGA had defected to the PDP in Isiala Ngwa South local government area of Abia state.
The declaration event, which was held in Mbutu Isiala Ngwa LGA and attended by prominent Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) leaders, saw the decamped APGA members declaring their support to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led government in the state.
The report had it that Prince Monday Kingsley led the 400 APGA members from Isiala Ngwa South Local government area to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Abia state.
But, reacting in a terse statement, Onukwubiri said: “There is no APGA stakeholder or leaders in Isiala Ngwa south in the commercially motivated gathering. They are a group of individual sales agents seeking for notice and going cap in hand.
“In APGA, we know ourselves, in Isiala Ngwa south, we know our leader and leaders as the LGA remains the stronghold of our strong man, leader and board of Trustee member of our great party, Chief Barr Ahamdi Nweke Emmanuel, a name that strikes fear in the camp of our opponents”.
