The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has raised the alarm that some people it described as “secessionists” have been making efforts to destabilise the second term bid of Governor Peter Mbah in the state.
 
This is as the former spokesman of President Bola Tinubu in the South-East, Denge Josef Onoh, stated that such an attempt will erode the tripod rotational agreement entrenched by the founding fathers of Enugu State.
 
The party, however, clarified that the secessionists were not really people agitating for a separate country from Nigeria but groups within the state seeking the creation of a new state out of Enugu.
 
The caretaker committee Chairman of the APC in the state, Dr Ben Nwoye, made the allegation when he received the state’s chapter of Asiwaju Renewed Mandate South-East (ARMSE) led by Onoh, yesterday.
 
Nwoye noted that there are different groups of new-state agitators in Enugu who are itching for a new state to be created from the state, and some in combination with parts of other South-Eastern states.
 
He alleged that such agitators have been going around, making efforts to field other candidates for the 2027 governorship election, sometimes from the same Senatorial District as Mbah and sometimes from outside the East Senatorial District, which the current rotation understanding in the state favours.
 
Nwoye, however, said that such efforts would be counter-productive, given the excellent administration of Mbah in the state.

He said: “Those in opposition to Governor Mbah want to destabilise the state. There are those who are secessionists, even though they are not Biafra agitators, but elder statesmen recruiting others from Enugu East Senatorial zone to run for governorship in 2027.”

Speaking on their reason for visiting the party office, Onoh said that, beyond their mandate to campaign for Tinubu’s reelection, they also felt compelled to advocate for Mbah’s reelection to ensure political stability in the state.