APC PRIMARIES: NGWA ASPIRANTS STAGE WALK OUT

Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the Ngwa extraction have reportedly pulled out of the Abia State gubernatorial primary scheduled to hold across the 17 local government areas of the state today, Tuesday October 2, 2018.

One of the gubernatorial aspirants, Prince Paul Ikonne while addressing journalists on behalf of other agitators of Ngwa extraction staged a walk out from the APC party secretariat in Umuahia, the state capital said that they have lost faith in the committee to organize credible guber primary election in the state.

Ikonne also claimed that the committee has perfected plans to use doctored membership registers to favour one of the governorship aspirants and party members whose names were not in the party register. 

Ikonne further alleged that a chieftain of the party has induced the committee with cash gifts running into millions to influence the eventual winner of the exercise.

While acknowledging that the leadership of the party remains supreme to such issues which they have raised, Ikonne however used the medium to call on the national leadership of the party to listen to their complaints and call the committee to order.

Until the time of filing the report, Ngwa guber aspirants; Comrade Chris Akomas, Sir Friday Nwosu, Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike, Prince Paul Ikonne were in a crucial closed door meeting at Damgrete Hotels where it was learnt, they would take consensus decision on what to do.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the committee David Iyola has denied the allegations raised by Ikonne.

Iyola said he wasn’t aware of any walk out by any aspirants or aspirant, stressing that the committee was committed to ensuring a credible primary in the state.

Meanwhile, distribution of materials to different polling units across the state started at about 12:30pm at the party secretariat under the supervision of various security personnel at the APC party secretariat on Azikiwe roiad by Adelabu Street, Umuahia.