NO Parallel Local Government congresses in Ebonyi-APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied that the party held parallel local government congresses in Ebonyi State on Saturday to choose party executives.
Speaking in Abakaliki on Sunday, the congress committee chairman, Chief Nicholas Adekunle-Ajayi, flanked by the state chairman, Chief Eze Nwachukwu, and other party stalwarts, Chief Ajayi described the report as lacking in truth, misleading, and without merit.
He said that the congresses which held across the 13 local government areas were peaceful and successful.
Chief Adekunle-Ajayi also affirmed that he personally supervised the congresses in five local government area councils across the three senatorial districts of the state.
The committee chairman said that other members of his team monitored the exercise in the remaining eight local government areas.
He said that the reports submitted by the teams described the congresses as peaceful, credible and transparent, adding that the misleading reports were designed to undermine the huge success recorded by the party in the state by ‘enemies of the party.’
“I, Chief Nicholas Adekunle-Ajayi, is the congress committee chairman appointed by the National Working Committee, NWC, and I’m the person who conducted the congresses in Ebonyi.
“To the best of my knowledge, there were no parallel congresses in the state.
“There is nothing like parallel congresses; parallel congresses can only exist if the national body of the party establishes two working committees for such congresses.
“There is just one authentic congress committee chairman for Ebonyi and that person is my humble self,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, the state chairman of the APC, Chief Eze Nwachukwu, described the alleged reports of parallel local government congresses by two factions of party in Ebonyi as originating from the figment of the imagination of peddlers of the rumour.
He explained that APC has only one structure under the leadership of the Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.
He confirmed that the state APC local government congresses held on Saturday, May 12 and that it was peaceful, transparent and attended by a large crowd of members.
“For records, we have no faction in APC in Ebonyi State.
“APC is one big family and we have our leader in the person of Chief Ogbonnaya Onu.
“The success of the wards and local government congresses have caused upset to the enemies of the party,” he said.
“The misleading reports were designed to undermine and discredit the achievements of the party.
But I want to urge our party members to disregard the reports and focus on the forthcoming state congress.
“Our congresses yesterday was a huge success,’’ he concluded.
