APGA Founder/BoT chair, Chief Okorie, calls for disciplinary actions against Gov. Soludo, others for anti-party activities
The Founder/Chairman, Board of Trustees, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has called for disciplinary actions against Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, over his continued sponsorship of crisis in the party.
Dr Okorie made the declaration during a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja titled, ‘In the matter of APGA, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has crossed the rubicon’.
He said Governor Soludo and his supporters refused to accept the finality of the Supreme Court judgment which affirmed Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of APGA.
He urged the governor to cease his destabilising war against the survival of the party that provided him with the singular opportunity to realise his long elusive life time desire to become the governor of Anambra State, after two previous failed attempts.
Dr Okorie further alleged that Governor Soludo is determined to sacrifice APGA rather than submit to Chief Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman.
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The BoT Chairman disclosed that the leadership of the party under Chief Njoku as National Chairman, repeatedly offered Professor Soludo the extended latitude to halt his continued sponsorship of crisis in APGA.
Dr Okorie revealed that highly respected and very senior clergymen in Anambra State, traditional rulers, association of town union presidents-general, several Anambra State business and intellectual elites have at various times appealed to the governor to give peace a chance to allow APGA to live out its full potential and promise.
He said, “Similarly, I was unrelenting in appealing to Governor Soludo to use his good offices to promote peace and reconciliation in APGA. I intervened in my capacity as the founder and vision bearer of this great party of immense historical importance in Nigeria. APGA is the first Igbo contribution to Nigeria’s political party system since 1923 (about 101 years ago).
“Two members of the National Working Committee of the Party had to approach the FCT High Court 40 in Bwari to seek the enforcement of the Supreme Court judgment as provided by the relevant provision of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, that any court of record below has the mandate to enforce the judgment of the Supreme Court.
“At this point, we resumed our appeal to Governor Soludo to cease fire and embrace peace in his political interest and in the interest of the Party.
“In order to underscore our genuine and sincere interest in the peace process, Chief Edozie Njoku, the National Chairman of APGA, honoured Gov. Soludo’s invitation to his Abuja residence. Needless to say, the meeting that lasted for nearly 3 long hours was more of a monologue that turned out to be Chief Edozie’s waste of valuable time that could have been deployed to something more productive.
“What followed was yet another frivolous suit slammed on INEC and Chief Edozie Njoku at a Federal High Court by one Mr. Sly Ezeonwuka, a Special Assistant to Gov. Soludo who claims to have been elected as the National Chairman of APGA in an illegal convention that was nullified by the judgement of the FCT High Court referred to above which was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
“Governor Soludo thinks that his unfettered access to the common patrimony of the good people of Anambra State grants him the assurance that the Court of Appeal can easily be compromised.
“The audacity of sponsoring Chief Victor Oye to embark on this latest misadventure at the Court of Appeal is incredible. A contemnor who has blatantly refused to purge himself of contempt is unashamedly before the Court of Appeal to protect his being sentenced for contempt of valid orders of a court of competent jurisdiction.
“The continued survival of APGA in spite of all its vicissitudes, is by the special grace of God. APGA is a product of three attempts for registration at INEC in 1996, 1998, and 2002. APGA is a spirit and therefore indestructible.
“APGA will outlive all of us, including Prof Chukwuma Soludo. Nobody born of a woman can prevent APGA from recovering its rightful place in Nigeria’s political space as the only political party in Nigeria anchored on genuine progressive ideology. Nobody born of a woman can be an undertaker to bury APGA as Prof. Soludo boasted in his tantrums and hallucinations.
“It is on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, that I advise the National Working Committee (NWC) of APGA to activate without delay the Party’s disciplinary machinery to sanction all those who may be found guilty of anti-party activities and whose actions and utterances have brought the Party to public ridicule and shame.
“I strongly advise that the Party’s disciplinary measures must include but not limited to Professor Chukwuma Soludo. The sanctity of the supremacy of the political party in party democracies all over the world must be sustained and maintained,” Dr Okorie said.
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