Party crisis: Self-inflicted woes destroying Enugu APC, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu says the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has been destroyed by “self-inflicted woes”.

The APC in Enugu is currently engulfed in a crisis.

A group within the party is accusing Ugochukwu Agballah, the Enugu APC chairperson, of diverting $1.5 million said to be the allowance of delegates that voted at the party’s presidential primary in June 2022.

Also, stakeholders like Ken Nnamani, former senate president, and Sullivan Chime, former Enugu governor, were not at the APC presidential campaign rally held on Wednesday.

In a statement on Thursday, Nana Ogbodo, spokesperson of the Enugu PDP campaign council, said the rally was a “monumental flop which starkly underlines an outright rejection of the party by the Enugu state people”.

“What else can be more humiliating than the embarrassing drama that played out live on national television on Wednesday? It is an open rebuke of a delusional leader,” Ogbodo said.

“Maybe Chief Ogochukwu Agballah will henceforth face his demons and stop blaming the PDP or our governorship candidate for every of his self-inflicted woes.

“We have no reason to worry about the Enugu APC that is already irredeemably destroyed by Agballah. We maintain that he is a clergy without a congregation.

“Despite shamelessly bussing a rented crowd from neighbouring states, Agballah could still not fill the small venue he chose for something as huge as a presidential rally.

“Agballah should, therefore, go home and make peace with his aggrieved party members and restitute whatever he has taken from them.”