The leadership of All Progressives Congress APC has warned Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, ENSIEC, against shady conduct of the forthcoming local government election as such could truncate the peace currently witnessed in the state.
The chairman of the party in Enugu, Chief Ugo Agballa gave this warning while addressing party faithful during the inaugural stakeholders meeting of the party in Enugu at the weekend.
Agballa further said that though the leadership of the party aimed to win the state and contribute to the emergence of an Igbo man as president of Nigeria, it must start with ending PDP’s grip of power in the state by winning political positions at the ward and local government levels.
He also enjoined Ndigbo to join the ruling All Progressives Congress as it was the only party through which an Igbo can emerge as president of the country in 2023.
“I joined the party to change the political monopoly in Enugu State. I joined the party not to be state chairman but to produce a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction.
“The party in the state has been split into factions but what we are trying to do is to bring everybody together and it has not been an easy task. We are trying to have a unified mainstream party and it is only APC that can offer such hope to end the monopoly of PDP in Enugu.
“We want to have a robust political system in Enugu State like what you see in Anambra. I am here to build an alternative platform, so, we can begin to practice true democracy in Enugu.”
“The time is now for the entire South-East to reposition and re-integrate if we are to achieve the Igbo Presidency in 2023. The APC is a national party and the largest party with 23 state governors. It is a party accepted in all the geo-political zones in Nigeria, and it is the right platform for us.
In his speech, the former Deputy Chairman of the party, in the South East, Emma Eneukwu, commended Agballa for his outstanding effort in restoring the party to its original vision.
“The meeting we held today is evidence that we have gotten a good leader. Anything that will be goodwill starts the head. That is the leader. So we have gotten a good leader and that is Ugo Agballa. I am not worried because I know the man we have, he is a performer and will lead us to the promised land.”