Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu
State, on Sunday, rejected any form of campaign fund from the presidential
candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
This formed part of the resolutions reached during a
stakeholders’ meeting at the South-East Secretariat of the party.
The governorship candidate of the party, Chief Uche Nnaji,
who made the proposition before it was unanimously carried by members at the
meeting, said the campaign fund was the cause of the current crisis rocking the
Enugu State chapter of the APC.
Reffering to the meeting of some of the party leaders in the
State with the APC national leadership, he said the demand for the removal of
Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah as the State Chairman was an exercise in futility.
The party leaders, led by former Senate President, Chief Ken
Nnamani had told the national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu to constitute a
caretaker Committee for the party in the State.
Speaking on the development, Nnaji said, “We learnt of the
mischief going on among our brothers, but the mischief will not go anywhere
under our watch. About six months to election you want to remove the State exco
of a party that is doing very well.
“When we took over, there was no party, it was existing for
another party, which was paying them. We asked those ones to leave and we are
happy they have left.
“Most of these gladiators don’t have presence in any ward.
Some of them, their ward is owing rent for two years, they can’t pay N30,000.
“Yet, they want to remove a capacity chairman. You can’t
touch an exco that is doing super well.
“Tinubu’s money is behind the APC crisis in Enugu State.
They want to create confusion, after which they will say, there is faction,
divide the campaign fund.
“They did it in 2015, did it 2019. The same human beings
that did it then are the ones repeating it now.
“I will be meeting with our national chairman on Monday and
then with Tinubu on Tuesday. I will tell Tinubu not to bring his money to
Enugu.
“Enugu State doesn’t need Tinubu’s money, let them not send
it. We will use our money and work. When we finish election, we will go for
refund. If they bring it now, they may start killing us.”
“The issue of Tinubu money, I believe I have your support to
tell them,” he asked, with the members chorusing ‘yes’.
Nnaji equally declared that they were not a party to any 25
percent voting arrangement.
“We reject in strongest term the 25 percent they want to
ascribe to us. As it stands now, over 50 percent of the voters are with us.
“Anything less than 70 percent, then we have failed. I
challenge everyone to come and check after the election, there will be nothing
less than 70 percent,” he boasted.
Earlier in a remark, Agballah said he was on the move to
reposition APC in the State and won’t be distracted.
He said, “today, I’m happy that APC is not just ready to
take part in this election, but poised to win.
“We parade the best, our guber candidate is the best, we can
trace the source od his resources. We shall investigate the source of the
phantom wealth the other candidates are parading.
“Nobody contesting the governorship election in Enugu State
is as clean as our candidate.
“We rejected some candidates that are questionable, we also
disqualified some surrogates.”
Meanwhile, at the meeting, the party’s local government and
ward chairmen said they remained behind the Agballah-led State Working
Committee.
They announced that they would be meeting the APC national
chairman to make their position known.
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