APC Enugu State Congress; Greater Awgu Stolen Mandate must be Restored.

APC Enugu State Congress: Greater Awgu Slot must me restored

Ejike Okeke is the Enugu State youths Coordinator Good Governance Ambassadors of Nigeria (GOGAN)

By Hon. Okeke Lawrence Ejike.

History was made in Enugu State out of pride, political greed and 2023 desperate interests. The tendency to always hold down APC in Enugu State in order to continue making peanuts from the PDP was displayed at the highest level. While the show was on, some leaders who have contacts that could stop a daylight robbery watched in silence expecting the robbery to end as if everything was going on smoothly.

Before today’s congress, in his usual nature of fairness and Equity as was displayed during his time as Enugu State Governor where all wards were considered for appointments and all local Government got at least few roads, school projects and improved Security. His Excellency Sullivan Chime with the support of Her Excellency Juliet Ibekaku- Nwagwu and other leaders from Enugu West in compliance to the zoning arrangements already adopted by the Enugu State APC and documented by the Nine-men committee constituted to share the elective party positions to the three senatorial zones of the State micro-zoned the State Chairmanship Position to Greater Awgu Cultural Zone.

In Enugu North, the zoning was followed down to Local Government area and ward Level. No Local Government or Cultural Zone was tampered with and no one tampered with the position given to any other Local Government area.

This also happened in Enugu East Senatorial Zone. But in Enugu West, a camp who said they were working for the minister of Foreign affairs Geoffrey Onyeama held a factional meeting and decided to impose Udi Local Government people on Enugu State APC against the wills of genuine members of APC who shunned self interest in order to promote Peace, Equity and Unity towards forming a formidable force to wrestle power from the PDP in 2023.

While Candidates and delegates were yet to get to the venue, those who had planned to shortchange the Greater Awgu people whom the Enugu State APC Chairmanship was zoned to out of the consideration that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, SSA to Mr. President, DG Von and the immediate National Vice Chairman South East Zone of the APC are from Udi/Ezeagu, otherwise known as the Agbaja clan, with the support oh Senator Hope Uzodinma from south East who never asked questions on how things stands in Enugu State, shared tags to thugs who were never nominated as delegates by APC in any Local Government area in the state, with a fraudulent mandate to announce the name of an anointed candidate of the game masters so that it will appear election was actually conducted.
With the intervention of good party men who noticed what was going on, the real delegates rushed in and disrupted the fraudulent process. There was no congress in Enugu State today!!!

Agballah who was a loser in PDP, and who is not yet a fully registered member of APC and the Udi/Ezeagu clan man who masterminded this attrocity against Greater Awgu People, clearly indicated that he didn’t see anybody to respect in Greater Awgu even though the position was officially micro zoned to other candidates from Greater Awgu comprising of Aninri, Awgu, Oji-River Federal Constituency.
Following the zoning, Hon. Timothy Amah stepped down for Group Captain Orji to guarantee Equity in the spirit of consensus. Those who want the party divided could not stop this evil.
Another shocker was that His Excellency Rtd. Group Captain Joseph Orji, a candidate in the congress was not allowed to enter the venue of the congress.

The intervention of Chikwado Chukwunta, Sullivan Chime, Vinmatin Ilo, Ibekaku Nwagwu and lots of other leaders meant that the Congress Committee must come back to finish its work.

It is unfortunate that the presence of the south East Leader and Member of the APC National Caretaker His Excellency Ken Nnamani did not stop this show of intimidation and greed.
I urge the National caretaker to as a matter of fairness and Equity return the mandate given to his Excellency Group Captain Joseph Orji by Enugu West APC under Zoning Arrangements carried out by the Enugu State APC. The zoning arrangements cannot end when it gets to the turn of greater Awgu people. Whoever that thinks this must stand should know the implications of taking away what belongs to a child. For records, you may think this is politics, what happened if allowed to stand shall be a reference point to intimidation and daylight robbery in Enugu State even in 2023.

Recall that Hon. Ejike Okeke has never written anything to condemn any candidate for the APC Chairmanship but zoning made the other candidates to be out of the game and this was not targeted at anybody but just to make the party stronger in Enugu State through Equity and Fairness.