As efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the All Progressive GrandAlliance (APGA} continue to meet brick walls, Ambassador Bianca, wifeof Ex-Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has warned thatif ?the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh failed toretrace his steps , he would be rendered a king without a kingdom.
Speaking during a meeting of stakeholders of party held in her latehusband’s Enugu residence Saturday, Mrs Ojukwu regretted that Umehwas absent at the meeting convened to find lasting solutions to theproblems of the party.
“This party must function as a national party, we are calling on ourgovernors to strengthen this party at all levels, we call on our
national chairman, we are calling you to come back home, we want youto come back, the legacies of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu will not die inyour hand, this party must move, this party must survive. If you donot retrace your steps, we will render you a king without a kingdom”,She said.
She noted that her late husband consistently called for setting upof a reconciliation committee that would reach out to aggrieved
persons who were frustrated out of the party, declaring that there wasno internal democracy in the party.
While warning that time was running out, she stressed the need for allorgans of the party at all levels to be restructured, regretting thatmost organs of the party were moribund.
Mrs Ojukwu expressed dismay over what she described as destabilizingcomments of Umeh in the media, insisting that the comments wereunacceptable.
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In a related development, a communique issued at the end of the oneday meeting has called on the National Executive Committee {NEC} ofAPGA to organize a National Convention without further delay andarrange to conduct proper congresses throughout the Federation.
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Our correspondent observed that the National Chairman of the party,Chief Victor Umeh, National Secretary of the Party, Alhaji SanniShinkafi, who allegedly sent text messages to discourage people fromattending meeting, State Chairman ?and some official of the party in Anambra State ?were absent at the meeting ?while Governor Peter Obi,Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly,Vice Chairman , Board of Trustees of the party, Dr Tim Menakaya,Chairman of the party in the South east, Hon Barrister MorganAnayalechi were in attendance.