Three parallel chairmen battle over APC structure in Delta

Crisis has started to rock the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress.
The crisis assumed a new twist after three state chairmen started battling to retain the structure of the party.
A factional Chairman, Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh led-structure of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria has refused to give way to Chief Isaac Tobore Ajueshi, who was the protem chairman of the party shortly after the merger, and executive members of Prophet Jones Ode Erue.
Chief Ajueshi was dumped by the national leaders of the party for Prophet Erue led-executive after mobilizing several political pressure groups, including the Delta Force, led by its National President, Hon. Goddey A. Okorodafe, and the Delta Elites, led by one Tina Ayonuvwe, for the party.
Trouble however erupted after Chief Okotie-Eboh could not understand why he was thrown out by the leaders of the party after the merger without notice.
He has since told those who care to listen that he remains the state chairman of the party in the state.
Okotie-Eboh became history after he was allegedly caught hobnobbing with the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, alongside allegations that several millions of naira exchanged hands.
“He sold the party to the ruling party during the rerun and 2011 general elections in the state when Chief Ovie Omo-Agege contested the governorship of the state against the incumbent Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, and was caught by the national body. So, it will be foolhardy to handover the new party to him again,” said an APC source on Sunday in Asaba.
Apart from Prophet Erue, the other factional chairmen are aggrieved and are bent on constituting a clog in the wheel of progress for the party in the state.
Although, Ajueshi has not been talking, he has refused to close down his parallel secretariat along the popula Nnebisi road, opposite Wema Bank, in Asaba, the state capital.
The Eagle Online however recalled that similar crisis rocked the party in 2007 before the party changed name from Action Congress to the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the state.
Then, a factional Chairman, Chief Sam Egwuerome, who operated for years as chairman of the ACN from Benin-City, Edo State with his secretariat along the Popular Nnebisi Road, Asaba, allegedly did everything to frustrate the 2007 governorship candidate of the the defunct AC in the state, Chief Peter Eloka Okocha, after the duo became sworn enemy.
Okocha’s accepted chairman operated in a well-furnished secretariat along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway against Egwuerome’s own, thereby polarizing the party.