Enugu APC crisis deepens as party expels Nnamani, Chime and others
The crisis in the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) took on another dimension yesterday when the state executive committee announced the expulsion of the former president of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, and former state governor, Sullivan Chime.
Also expelled are the former Speaker of the State Assembly, Eugene Odo, and the Chief Executive of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu. But while the party suspended Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyema from the party, his personal assistant, Flavor Eze, was kicked out of the party.
The party's state executive committee, which met at its zonal secretariat in Enugu, accused the members concerned of anti-party activities, stressing that the committee, which was set up to investigate on them, found them guilty.
APC Secretary of State Robert Ngwu, who read the decision of the State Executive Council (SEC), noted that the recommendations of the Investigation and Disciplinary Committee were adopted by the DRY. He further announced the expulsion of Joe Mammel and Maduka Arum from the party.
They have been accused of working against party interests and have openly supported other political parties in the just-concluded elections. Odoh, however, described the development as unfortunate, pointing out that it showed how bad things had gone within the party.
Underlining that the state executive headed by Ugochukwu Agballah had no power to suspend, not to speak of expulsion, he challenged Agballah to show his voter and party membership card.< /p>
Odoh said that having failed in its attempt to enrich itself with the elections, the executive had resorted to punches. In addition, Flavor Eze, who previously expressed fears over the decision to suspend the leaders, accused Agballah of using his office to create divisions within the party.
He insisted that the leaders were working for the party, but pointed out that Agballah had not voted for the APC gubernatorial candidate in the March 18 elections, and wondered who else could have voted for the nominee when the party's state chairman betrayed the party's mandate.
The crisis in the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) took on another dimension yesterday when the state executive committee announced the expulsion of the former president of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, and former state governor, Sullivan Chime.
Also expelled are the former Speaker of the State Assembly, Eugene Odo, and the Chief Executive of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu. But while the party suspended Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyema from the party, his personal assistant, Flavor Eze, was kicked out of the party.
The party's state executive committee, which met at its zonal secretariat in Enugu, accused the members concerned of anti-party activities, stressing that the committee, which was set up to investigate on them, found them guilty.
APC Secretary of State Robert Ngwu, who read the decision of the State Executive Council (SEC), noted that the recommendations of the Investigation and Disciplinary Committee were adopted by the DRY. He further announced the expulsion of Joe Mammel and Maduka Arum from the party.
They have been accused of working against party interests and have openly supported other political parties in the just-concluded elections. Odoh, however, described the development as unfortunate, pointing out that it showed how bad things had gone within the party.
Underlining that the state executive headed by Ugochukwu Agballah had no power to suspend, not to speak of expulsion, he challenged Agballah to show his voter and party membership card.< /p>
Odoh said that having failed in its attempt to enrich itself with the elections, the executive had resorted to punches. In addition, Flavor Eze, who previously expressed fears over the decision to suspend the leaders, accused Agballah of using his office to create divisions within the party.
He insisted that the leaders were working for the party, but pointed out that Agballah had not voted for the APC gubernatorial candidate in the March 18 elections, and wondered who else could have voted for the nominee when the party's state chairman betrayed the party's mandate.
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