Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State on Wednesday boycotted the presidential campaign rally held in the state capital by the party’s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
While they were at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu to welcome Tinubu, they disappeared from there.
The stakeholders included the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; former Governor of the state, Sullivan Chime; and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Eugene Odo.
Briefing journalists, Chime said the stakeholders were at the airport to receive the presidential candidate, but because of the internal issue they had with the state Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah, they would not appear at the rally.
He recalled that the stakeholders had staged a peaceful protest to its National Secretariat in Abuja over the chairman’s attitude and regretted that nothing was done about it.
The former governor said that someone not known by the party emerged the party chairman and since then, the party had been in disarray.
He also complained that the governorship candidate of the party and the deputy were from the same senatorial zone, noting that it had never happened since the history of democracy.
The former governor said they would all work hard to ensure APC’s victory during the general election, but they were left with no option than to distance themselves from such illegal act.
Nnamani, while pointing out his anger, said the party had external interference.
He said that the APC chairman in the state and the governorship candidate were running the party like sole administrators.
Nnamani said they neglected their leaders in all the party’s activities, pointing out that the caliber of people they had in the APC could take it to a greater height.
He, however, said that if the mess did not stop, there would be no peace in the state.
Also contributing, Odo said the rally was not witnessed by the party leaders in the state due to chairman’s attitude towards the stakeholders.
Odo explained that Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State as the leader of the party in South East should ensure the unity of the party instead of using mediocres to run the party.
He therefore said that the stakeholders in the state had decided to distance themselves from such childish act.
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