Nwoye noted that allowing delegates from Enugu to vote in the convention to produce the presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 general elections could boomerang since there was no party congress that elected the current leadership of the party in the state.
He added that the issue of the authentic leadership of the Enugu chapter of the party is still being contested in court, even as he expressed worry over tickets now being issued to people by a factional leadership of the party in the state.
Nwoye also raised the alarm over what he described as an ‘ongoing business franchise’ with the tickets of the party in the state.
He said: “People now pay money through the back door to get party nominations for elective offices against those that emerged in the primaries, a development coined by the state factional leadership to enrich themselves.”
Addressing reporters in Enugu, yesterday, Nwoye said that Chief Ugochukwu Agballah and his executive “did not stand for election.” He added: “If we use them as delegates from Enugu to produce any presidential candidate, it may be challenged in court and, in the long run, may affect the victory of the party.”
Nwoye, who stated that he was no longer comfortable with happenings in the party in the state, alleged APC in Enugu has become a pack of fraud, where candidates, who emerged in the primaries, are being replaced by people who did not stand for the election, after paying through the back door.”
He referred to a petition by the Chairman, Enugu State House of Representatives primary election, Leonard Ekwensi, to the National Chairman, complaining of the seizure and refusal of Agballah to release the state’s House of Representatives primary election materials to the selection panel.
In the petition, Ekwensi stressed the inability of his committee to conclude their assignment in the state over the alleged seizure and refusal to release the materials sent to his committee through Agballah’s office.
