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APGA: More trouble as Imo guber aspirants demand N761m paid to party leader Oye

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is involved in another crisis, as four governorship aspirants who participated in the party primaries held last year have cried out that they were swindled by the leadership of the party led by Chief Victor Oye.

The candidates whose misgivings were contained in a memo written by the former National Chairman of the party, Senator Victor Umeh to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, said Oye collected huge sums of money, both in local and foreign currencies, from them and assured them individually of the party’s ticket.

According to the memo, the four governorship candidates: Mr Okey Ezeh, Mr Stanley Amuchie, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, and Chief Humphrey Anumodu paid over N761 million to Chief Oye.

The candidates were said to have paid the money as follows: Mr Ezeh, a total sum of N273,250,000; Mr Amuchie, 280,000,000; Chief Ohakim, $300,000 and N100 million while Chief Anumodu parted with a 2018 Toyota Landcruiser Black Sports Utility Vehicle worth N50 million.

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The memo reads thus in part: “I see these as very serious moral issues particularly as Oye has consistently insisted that he did not take money from anybody during the 2018 primaries.

“I consider these revelations as serious embarrassment to the party and gross abuse of office.

“One unfortunate thing was that they engaged these fellows by dropping your name (Obiano) as supporting their actions”.

The allegations comes as the Publicity Secretary of the party in Abia State, Ebere Uzokwa, has backed calls for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party.

Uzokwa berated Oye over his poor handling of the affairs of the party in the country and called on him to throw in the towel for lacking the capacities to preside over the activities of the party.

The spokesman who conveyed the state party leadership’s position in an interview with reporters in Aba on Thursday, pointed out that the party’s national chairman’s alleged failure to run the affairs of the party properly, has led to an exodus of APGA leaders and stakeholders from the party.

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