By anthony anyanwu
Interim Imo State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Hon Dr. David Iwuagwu has taken a swipe at the purported merging of APGA with All Progressive Congress, APC, saying that Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu warned the party against that.
Speaking in Owerri, Honourable Iwuagwu explained that the party has never taken any collective decision on the merger issue. He said however, that any group from APGA who wishes to join the merger and succeeds is free to do so but is on its own.
“Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu who is the founder of APGA advised us while alive that there should not be any merger with the party but that the party can be in alliance with any political groupings”.
Continuing he said, “Another nagging issue is that of a purported merger of our great party with four other parties to form a “Messianic” mega party called APC or any other acronym by which such party may be known. We hereby state categorically that at no time did our party take such a decision”.
“At best this so called merger exists in the imagination of those propagating it. APGA remains a strong registered political party and will continue to grow and expand on its own”.
On the controversy about its leadership in the state, Hon. Iwuagwu maintained that APGA has only one authentic leadership which emerged through the 2011 congress.
“All the factions and groups claiming legitimacy can not have it through any other way than through the party constitution which states that the leadership of the party at any level must emerge through a congress”.
“The essence of this press briefing today is to correct any misgivings that APGA is in any manner disintegrated or loosing grip of our strong holds and to assert that Imo State Chapter of APGA does have an authentic state executives that emerged through congress, and directly relating and subject to the National Executive Committee of our great party led by Chief Sir Victor Umeh to whom we remain faithful and loyal pending the determination of the appeal before the court of law”.
