*as APC declares the party comatose
The conspicuous absence of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in a duly constituted meeting, set up by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) held in Abuja, to discuss a number of critical issues, with the National Chairmen of all registered political parties in the country including ten of those the All Progressives Congress (APC) referred to as “dead and risen” political parties on Wednesday gave unsavory indication that initial troubles bedeviling the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has worsened to the comatose level.
In a press statement issued from the state Anambra state chapter of the APC and signed by the Publicity Secretary, Mr Okelo Madukaife raised a concerned citizen’s alarm that “APGA is on life support machine, but a conclusive proof that those who hang their hope on what used to be a political party are building on nothing”.
Incidentally all telephone calls put across to the party’s national officers were never responded to, as they were said to be attending an emergency meeting at the Governor’s Lodge, Awka.
According to APC’s Madukaife, “top of the agenda on INEC’s meeting was filling the vacancies in the National Assembly, in which Anambra Central Senatorial seat made vacant by a sore, yet suspect chain of APGA lawsuits has denied the people representation.
“It is therefore provocative that meeting designed to find the way forward was disregarded by APGA, as a first salvo towards returning to the trenches to sabotage Anambra Central Senatorial District for phoney business ends.
“Yet APGA before now, had chosen to rely on a fellow without credibility to block the chances of the senatorial district being represented in the ruling caucus in the Red Chambers and boasted of a one-state party finding its way to the national Assembly, with a one-man caucus, against the wish of all right-thinking citizens of Anambra State.
“But most importantly, APGA cannot in all honesty point at a human figure today that can be referred to as its National Chairman, an index of party maladministration. As a party is run, so is the government under the control of the party run. APGA runs only one State Government in Nigeria now, where the state confiscates local government funds for Government House disco parties with surplus liquor.
“We admit that it is not only APGA that has this challenge of not knowing who their National Chairman is. Yet others are at least making attempts to resolve theirs. But not APGA! How can APGA do same without imaginative ideas and when the crème de la crème of the nation they claim to stand up for, without concrete proof, are everywhere but within the ailing party called APGA?”
APC, Mr Madukaife stated, therefore “urge the people of Anambra Central Senatorial District to mark their diaries with this remarkable disappointment from those who do good business that take them to banking halls with their collective destiny and await the day of reckoning, when speaking with a loud voice is inevitable.”8
He reiterated his party’s earlier stand that, “any seat in the National Assembly that does not emerge from national political parties, the most promising of which is APC for the South East in order to take full advantage of the 2019 scenario which vista has come into sight with the fixture of election date and the visible acceleration of political dynamics is a colossal waste.”