The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, may be heading for reconciliation with its founder, Chief Chekwas Okorie who was forced out of the party’s leadership in controversial circumstances.
DailyPost learnt this on Friday in Enugu through the interim national Chairman of the party, Chief Maxi Okwu.
The APGA chairman who spoke to journalists shortly after a rally organized by the Enugu State Chapter of the party, said it was part of his reconciliation mission in the party.
Okwu said in line with the mandate given to him to restructure the party and reconcile all aggrieved party members,he will go to the extra mile of meeting his brother, Chekwas Okorie and asking him to give him back, the soul of the party.
“You know he said he left APGA with its soul, so I will meet him as a brother and plead with him to give me the soul of APGA, which he claims he left with. I am going to visit him”.
He revealed that the party had kick started the arrangement towards holding ward and local government congresses, which would make it possible for a national convention of the party in April.
“The national convention of the All Progressives Grand Alliance will hold in the middle of April this year at the Nike Lake Hotel Enugu. That was where APGA started in July 2001, so we are going back there.
“The process shall start with ward congress on March 8, after which there will also be local government and state congresses, and finally the national convention”, he stated.
He described the rally as home coming for him, challenging Chief Victor Umeh to pool such crowd if he claimed he was in charge of APGA.
He said: “You saw the number of people here today; this is just party stakeholders in Enugu State; it is a continuation of a process I started in my ward; that’s my own style of politics, it is grassroots based.
“I challenge both Nkolagu and Umeh to repeat what we did here today. This is Enugu State APGA; it is not in Abuja or on pages of newspapers”.
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