Enugu APC Stakeholders Boycott Tinubu's Presidential Campaign Rally In Enugu

The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Enugu State on Wednesday boycotted the presidential campaign rally of Ahmed Bola Tinubu in Enugu State. 

The stakeholders were at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu to welcome Tinubu and disappeared from there. 

The major stakeholders that ignored the rally include, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, the former Senate president, Sen.Ken Nnamani, the immediate past governor of the state, Sullivan Chime, the immediate past Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Eugene Odo among others.

Briefing journalists, Chime disclosed that the stakeholders were at the airport to receive the Presidential candidate but because of the internal issue they had with the state chairman Chief Ugochukwu Agballah they would not appear at the venue properly for rally.

While calling on the national leadership to address the Enugu crisis, recalled that the issue made them to lead a peaceful protest to the National Secretariat in Abuja, adding that nothing had been done about it till now.

"We are not there at Okpara square because of internal crisis within the party in Enugu state.

"The party had been in disarray, since the imposition of someone who is not a member of the party as the chairman."

He also complained that the governorship candidate of the party and the deputy were from the same senatorial zone, noting that it had never happened since the history of democracy in the state.

The former governor said they would all work hard to ensure APC's victory during the general election but they were left with no option than to distance themselves from such illegal act.

Also, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, while expressing anger, regretted that the party had been hijacked by an external body from Imo state.

He lamented that the imposed party chairman in the state and the governorship candidate were running the party like sole administrators.

Nnamani said that they neglected their leaders in all the party's activities, noting that the calibar of people they had in APC before Agballa's intrusion were people that could have taken the party to greater heights.

Also contributing, former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Eugene Odo, said that the chairman's attitude was the reason why stakeholders boycotted the rally.

Odo said that Gov. Hope Uzodinma as the leader of the party in South East should ensure the unity of the party instead of using mediocres to run the party.