Breaking: APC Expels Ex-Gov. Chime, VON DG, Others

ENUGU – The Enugu State Executive Committee (SEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday announced the expulsion as well as suspen­sion of prominent members of the party, who allegedly worked against the party during the just concluded general elections.

Those expelled include for­mer Governor Sullivan Chime; former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh; Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu; former Commissioner for Tourism, Ozor Joe Mmamel; Special Assistant to Foreign Affairs Minister, Flavour Eze; and former House of Rep can­didate in 2019, Maduka Arum (aka Mama)…… CONTINUE READING 

Those suspended are the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and former Senate President Ken Nnamani.

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The State Secretary of APC, Robert Ngwu, who addressed a press conference at the end of the party’s SEC meeting, pre­sented the party’s Disciplinary and Fact Finding Committee recommendations which were ratified by the SEC during her meeting.

Ngwu said, “The party is fully aware of the nefarious ac­tivities of the previous admin­istration of the party in the 2015 and 2019 general elections.

“With that in mind, the party reviewed various petitions and reports from the Fact-Finding Committee, and the Disci­plinary Committee against some individuals.

“They are Sen. Ken Nnama­ni, Barr. Sullivan Chime, Hon. Geoffrey Onyeama, Hon. Eu­gene Odoh, Mr. Osita Okechuk­wu, and others (Ozor Joe Mma­mel, Mr. Maduka Arum, and Mr. Flavor Eze) from their different local government areas. The petition bordered on anti-par­ty activities and other offences against the APC”.

While the party alleged that Sen. Ken Nnamani and Sullivan Chime openly endorsed and campaigned for the governor­ship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Mbah, Geoffrey Onyea­ma and his SA, Flavour Eze, campaigned for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, and worked for the governorship candidate of PDP, Mbah, using Federal Gov­ernment palliatives like cooking stove, wrappers, rice and garri.

The report alleged that the Voice of Nigeria (VON) DG, Okechukwu; former Speaker, Odoh; former Commissioner, Mmamel and Maduka Arum similarly engaged in different forms of anti-party activities which negatively affected the party’s performance in the state.

The state secretary stated that after conducting a thor­ough investigation into the alle­gations of anti-party activities levelled against the respective party leaders, it was regretta­bly confirmed that the reports and evidences gathered by the fact-finding committee point to their guilt.

The SEC, therefore, ratified the expulsion and suspension of the party leaders and forwarded the resolution to the Zonal Work­ing Committee of the party for further action.

In a remark, the state chair­man of the party, Barr Ugo­chukwu Agballah, said that the party was in the process of instilling discipline in the par­ty and will not shy away from taking on any member of the party no matter how highly placed whose activities impact­ed negatively against the party during the elections.

He said, “The purging of the party is a continuous exercise and we believe that by expelling some erring members, the cri­sis we have witnessed over the years would be stemmed”…… CONTINUE READING