… APGA YOUTHS SAYS MOVE SIGNS OF DESPERATION BY SOLUDO AND PLOT TO MORTGAGE APGA FUTURE.
… SEEKS SOLUDO DISQUALIFICATION OVER PLOT TO USE APGA PLATFORM TO PURSUE SELFISH AMBITION
… SAYS APGA HAS SUFFERED IN THE HANDS OF POLITICAL GATE CRASHERS LIKE SOLUDO, WANTS A CORE APGA MAN AS ANAMBRA GUBER CANDIDATE
… APGA WILL BE DEFEATED IF THE PLOT TO IMPOSE SOLUDO AS CANDIDATE SAILS THROUGH
Ahead of the 2021 Governorship primaries in Anambra State which comes up later this month, the Atiku-Soludo campaign posters have flooded the streets of Abuja. The posters which appeared in different designs claim that only the Atiku-Soludo alliance can rescue Nigeria from the brink of collapse. Efforts to reach the APGA National Headquarters Sunday morning when the posters emerged proved abortive as only stern looking security guards and some young persons who claimed to be youth leaders of the Party were at the Secretariat when our correspondent went there.
However, the youths say the move by the Soludo campaign to think of an alliance with Atiku so as to vie for the Vice President of the country and mortgage the Governorship seat of Anambra state was a sign of desperation and a move to send APGA into extinction. They claimed the rumours had been in the air for a long time that Soludo’s main aim of running for the Governorship seat of Anambra was to avail him a platform to run for the Vice Presidency of the country.
“Soludo should have joined PDP and contested for the Governorship of Anambra if he thinks he is popular. Why use APGA popularity in Anambra State to go and join PDP Presidential ticket? We will resist it and we shall be submitting our petition to the National Chairman tomorrow to call for the disqualification of Prof. Soludo. This is a clear case of antiparty activity and the height of selfish ambitions” says Mr. Okeke Kenneth who is the leader of APGA Ambassadors.
He said APGA has suffered immensely from the hands of political gatecrashers who often run to the Party, rely on her popularity to win elections and then leave. He cited former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who won the Governorship election of Imo State on the platform of the Part and then defected to the APC. He also listed Hon. Herman Hembe from Benue State who won election into the House of Representatives and has now defected to APC and also the Imo State Speaker, Hon. Chiji Collins who alongside other members of the Imo State House of Assembly defected from the Party within months of winning elections on the platform of the Party.
He claimed that APGA Ambassadors would do all within their powers to see that only a core APGA man, not a defector or a gatecrasher would be given the ticket of the Party. Also speaking, Mr. Ben Okafor, an APGA ambassador said with the latest position, APGA would lose the Governorship seat if Prof. Soludo is presented as the candidate of the Party as Ndi Anambra, who are 100% APGA, are very angry with this development and will not trust him not to defect with the Governorship seat to seek his selfish ambition. He said Gov. Willie Obiano has done so much for the Party and entrenched APGA in the minds of Anambra voters with his good works and that APGA cannot afford to lose Anambra due to the choice of a wrong candidate claiming that they would work hard to return APGA yet again 21 over 21 if any other candidate is presented following a free and fair primary. He wondered if the Governor and the National chairman knew of this anti party plot of the Professor as his outright disqualification from the race would be the saving grace for the Party.
