APGA disowns Chekwas Okorie, says no other faction

The All Progressive Ground Alliance (APGA) said there is no other faction of its executives.

The party’s Publicity Secretary, Mr. Tex Okechukwu, stated this in Lagos on Thursday.

He said: “Our National Chairman, Ozonkpu Victor Ike-Oye, was elected with other members of the National Working Committee (NWC ) in a convention held on May 31st, 2019 supervised by INEC.

“In attendance at the convention were the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano; the 36 States chairmen, including the FCT; members of States House of Assembly and Board of Trustees (BOT) and NEC at Dora Akunyili Centre, Awka.

“The present leadership headed by Ike-Oye succeeded Mr. Chekwas Okorie in 2003.

“Okorie has since left APGA to form another political party, United Peoples Party (UPP).”

He said that a national chairman of APGA could only come from a properly constituted national convention supervised by INEC.

Okechukwu said the party met all the conditions on the May 31, 2019 convention that brought in the subsisting party executives

He urged the general public to disregard any other person or group of persons claiming leadership of the party.

He said the distraction was to cause disharmony in the party.

Okechukwu also said the party was banking on its media team for victory in presidential, governors, senate, and House of Representatives at the 2023 polls.

He said so far APGA had the best Presidential candidate in the person of Justice Peter Umeadi Rtd.

He acknowledged the media team’s sacrifices in projecting the party in the Anambra government for many years.

Okechukwu urged them to continue protecting and projecting the good image of the party with every sense of passion, commitment, and diligence.