Injustice meted to founding members during congress brewed internal crisis in Abia APC–Okorie
By Chinedu Emeruwa Chinedu
Chief Offor Okorie, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, has insisted that the internal crisis in Abia chapter of the party was necessitated by the injustice meted to the foundation members during 2022 congresses in the state.
He regretted that the crisis factionalized the Abia APC and caused the party in having two gubernatorial candidates which was later determined in the supreme court few weeks to the concluded 2023 main elections held across the state.
Okorie who doubled as the Abia factional Publicity Secretary of the APC, spoke on Sunday, while reacting to a recent meeting of local government and wards executive committee members of the party in the state presided by the state chairman, Kingsley Ononogbu.
He claimed that Ononogbu was a major factor in the problems in Abia APC, and accused him of refusing to recognize most leaders who built the party in the state.
“Who ever knew Dr Ononogbu in the history of Abia APC? He was never in the picture of Abia APC from the formation stage. I can beat my heart and tell you that Dr Ononogbu does not know 90 percent of the leaders of the party in the state. He anchors his trust and leadership in just one leader in the person of Chief Ikechi Emenike.
“How can you unite the party when you can’t reach out to other leaders, or called people that knows to direct you on the way to go? Leadership is not staying at the comfort of your house and called yourself chairman when you are leading nobody. It shows you are only taking a walk. How can Abia APC be in peace when he Kingsley Ononogbu refused to recognise leaders who has put in their best both financially and physically in the building of the party since from the formation stage till now, and are still major players and senior members of the party”,Okorie queried.
“I will advice Dr Ononogbu to humble himself, reach out to the other factional executive. Because that is the executive that has the grip of the party from the ward to the LGA. He should call for a meeting with the two factions, sort out their differences and organised a unity rally that everybody will come together under one canopy. I believe Abia State APC will be one if the wrongs are made right”,he posited.
