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Crisis brews as Ngige says Okorocha has no right to declare Nnamani S’East APC leader

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It appears the South East chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is having a divided house as the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, has faulted the recent declaration of former Senate President Ken Nnamani as the party’s leader in the zone.

He said the pronouncement by Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha that Nnamani is APC leader in South East was not only illegal but absolutely contradicts the party’s constitution.

Ngige stated this in collaboration with the National Vice Chairman of the APC in the South-East, Chief Emma Eneukwu, during an interaction with newsmen.

“There’s no such position in our party’s constitution. No clause or section of the constitution provides for such position in our party. It’s a storm in a teacup; we don’t want that to cause disunity. So this is a non-issue at all,” Ngige said.

Eneukwu, who supported the minster said, “The issue of leadership, when you look at the constitution, there is nowhere it mentioned anything about any zonal leader. We cannot be fighting for nothing and that thing is causing a division among brothers. We cannot be deceived by the devil. The development will prevent us from understanding the task before us, which is delivering Anambra State.”

While maintaining that far-reaching decisions were taken at the recent meeting of APC members in the zone, Ngige added: “We looked at our ongoing registration exercise state by state, and made recommendations on how we can get more people to join our party; our door is wide open. We welcome people except those who are disqualified by the membership clause in our constitution. If you belong to any other party or any other organization whose aims and aspirations are detrimental to the progress of our party, you are not qualified.

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“We talked about discipline in the party; we put up a disciplinary committee headed by Uche Onyeaguocha. We also set up a fund-raising and finance committee.

“After this registration, we move to the next stage which is to go on ward tours. We will visit 326 wards in Anambra State and plant our party flag there with our members and then sensitize the people. We then move to the general election, after our party primaries which will be around July.”

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