2019: APGA on Rescue Mission in Abia, Strategises to Upstage PDP
The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has embarked on “a rescue mission in Abia”, saying that it is now well prepared to push out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Abia Government House.
Already, the party which made a very strong impact in the 2015 governorship and House of Assembly polls in Abia has continued to be upbeat as it strategises to upstage the PDP come 2019.
To make good its intention, a meeting was held at the party secretariat along Ikot Ekpene Road, Umuahia, to fine tune strategies. It was attended by members of the state working committee (SWC), local government chairmen of the party and representatives of the contact group from the national leadership.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting the Political Adviser to Anambra governor, Chief Ifeatu Obi Okoye, said that APGA was now better organised and better equipped to take what belongs to us in Abia.”
He said that APGA which controls Anambra State has demonstrated its capacity and capability for good governance hence it was desirous of replicating its performance in Abia through its rescue mission.
“If we can do it in Anambra we can do it here in Abia,” he said, adding that the people of God’s own state were yearning for the party that would come and transform the state.
Okoye, who was the immediate past national publicity secretary of APGA, noted that the party has continued to wax strong in Abia and had actually won the governorship poll in 2015 but was denied its victory.
However he insisted that come 2019 general election APGA would not only repeat its 2015 performance in Abia but would go the extra mile of actually taking over Government House Umuahia by winNing and defending its votes.
On the apparent division in the Abia chapter of APGA, Okoye said that there was no faction in the party, pointing out that virtually every person was at the meeting held at the party secretariat hence “it is a good sign that this party is united”.