The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders, at the weekend, announced the party’s readiness to welcome new members and reintegrate those previously suspended or expelled.
The decision was contained in an eleven-point communiqué released at the end of the party’s stakeholders’ meeting in Enugu.
It will be recalled that Enugu APC had, shortly after the 2023 general elections, suspended or expelled prominent members of the party over alleged anti-party activities.
Those either expelled or suspended included former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; former Governor of the state, Sullivan Chime; former Speaker of the State Assembly, Eugene Odoh; former Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu; former state party chairman, Ben Nwoye; and recently the member representing Enugu State in the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Mrs. Ginika Tor.
But in the communiqué, read by the party’s state Secretary, Robert Ngwu, the stakeholders said that the review of the suspension or expulsion of any member would be “contingent on sincere repentance and abandonment of sabotage instincts, fifth columnist, anti-party acts and all divisive actions.”
The stakeholders unanimously passed a vote of confidence on the State Executive Committee (SEC), led by the State’s APC Chairman, Ugochukwu Agballah, and the leader of the party in Enugu State, Uche Nnaji, who is the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology.
“Their leadership was credited for the strategic enhancement of the party’s position within the state. The meeting served as a platform to reaffirm that APC, at the state level, is united,” the communiqué reads.
