Ukaegbu describes his alleged sack from Abia APGA as ruse

By Ijendu Iheaka

The substantive, Court-reinstated Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia Chapter, Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu has debunked the claim of his sack by rival Augustine Ehiemere as a ruse.

Ukaegbu disclosed this in Aba on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He was responding to a publication by Ehiemere claiming to have suspended Ukaegbu and Chief Chikwe Udensi from the party.

NAN reports that since 2015, APGA in Abia has been facing leadership crisis that had robbed it of the opportunity of winning elections and leading the state.

However, the Court of Appeal, Owerri division on April 7, 2022 confirmed Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu as the authentic chairman of APGA in Abia.

But Ehiemere has been laying claims to the chairmanship of the party without showing any evidence controverting the court orders in favour of Ukaegbu.

Ukaegbu wondered where Ehiemere got the powers to challenge the court orders without going through a court when even the APGA National executive is bound to obey court orders re-instating him.

“When Ehiemere came to court claiming to be the chairman of APGA, the trial judge described him as a passerby and a meddlesome interloper, who has no business in the suit.

“That was the exact words of the court because he (Ehiemere) is unknown to the law.

“The Court, before that time, stopped APGA from removing me and replacing me with any other person, thus taking away the party’s power to nominate any other person outside myself as state chairman.

“It was at that point that Ehiemere was claiming to be the state chairman resulting in the Court describing him as a meddlesome interloper having come on behalf of a party that had its powers to re-appoint another chairman taken from it.

“So where could he have derived his powers to counter a court order without going through a court”, he asked?

Ukaegbu expressed sadness over the crisis some members were fueling at a time when they should help Abia people to get the new government of their dreams.

He said that persons claiming he was being used against the party’s interest were the same who have collected documented money from other parties to deprive APGA of its rights