APGA crisis won’t affect Soludo’s re-election – Factional chair, Ezeokenwa

A factional Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sylvester Ezeokenwa, has expressed confidence that the internal political crisis bedeviling the party won’t affect the re-election of Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo.

Ezeokenwa made this statement on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

According to him, crisis rocked the party during the elections of previous governors Willie Obiano and Peter Obi but did not stop it from emerging victorious.

“We had this crisis in 2009, it did not stop the re-election of Governor Peter Obi; we had this crisis in 2013, it did not stop the re-election of Gov Willie Obiano; we had this issue in 2017, it did not stop the re-election of Gov Willie Obiano, we had this issue in 2021, it didn’t stop the election of Professor Charles Soludo.

“These men that are doing this thing, they do it every four years once the election approaches. But there is one thing, Anambra State and the people of Anambra understand and believe in APGA and what APGA has brought to Anambra State,” he stated.

Ezeokenwa became APGA chairman in May 2023 after an elective convention held in Awka, Anambra State.

However, in July, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, recognised Edozie Njoku as the national chair of APGA, saying it relied on a court order to do so.

Njoku has since argued that a convention that was held in Owerri, Imo State capital, produced him as APGA’s national chairman.