The party spoke in a statement by its Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary, Chief Abraham Amah, on Sunday.
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Okonkwo, at a news conference Wednesday in Abuja, was reacting to a report that he had stepped down for Kalu, the former State’s Governor.
The party leadership also zoned its Deputy Governorship seat ticket to the Umunneato extraction of Abia central senatorial district, while the office of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly is zoned to Ukwa bloc in Abia south district.
In a communiqué released after a meeting of the incorporated trustees of the forum on Saturday, the forum noted that Abia State constitutionally has three senatorial zones, and so “is structured on a tripod” and that any attempt at returning to the regional arrangement amounts to a deformation of the tripod and is objectionable.
Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Orji Kalu, has expressed hope that Nigeria is gradually taking its rightful position in the comity of nations.