By Chijindu Chinedu A fresh crisis may have hit the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, following the purported suspension of Hon. Ifeanyi Uchendu, member representing Ohafia south constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly.
The lawmaker is being accused of anti-party activities.
Uchendu was suspended from the party by the Chairman of APGA in the state, Rev. Austin Ehiemere for allegedly hobnobbing with the ruling party in the State.
While backing the suspension, the National Vice Chairman of APGA, South-east zone, Mr. Smart Iheoma said the party stopped involving the lawmaker in any of her activities since August last year.
He said: “He was long suspended as the party never involved him in any of her activities since last year August. Even his constituents are not with him; he stands alone in all he is doing”.
However, the state Secretary of the party in the state, Elder Onukwurubiri Sunday, in a reaction, dismissed the purported suspension of Uchendu.
He accused the embattled state Chairman of the party, Rev. Ehiemere of fomenting trouble in the state chapter of APGA.
According to Onukwubiri,”Ehiemere has no power to suspend the lawmaker from the party; the chairman himself remains suspended in the party.”
The party’s scribe explained that there was never a day the leadership of APGA in Abia sat and suspended Mr. Ifeanyi Uchendu from the party.
“There was no time Hon Ifeanyi Uchendu was suspended from APGA Abia State by any person.
“I speak in my capacity as the state secretary of APGA in Abia and I am from Ohafia chapter; there is nothing like that from the authentic LGA office.
“This is the handiwork of the suspended former state chairman of the party”, he said.
Just recently Uchendu reportedly endorsed the state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for second term during a ‘Thank You visit’ of the governor to Ohafia local government area over his triumph at the Supreme Court.
The APGA in Abia State has been embroiled in crisis over the suspension of Ehiemere by some members of the state working committee, led by Onukwurubiri, the secretary.
The SWC members accused the party chairman of allegedly misappropriating funds donated by APGA members in the Abia State House of Assembly.
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