Abia APGA Alleges Oye’s Plot to Frustrate Otti’s Petition at Tribunal

Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has expressed reservations over the alleged complicity of the party’s National Chairman, Chief Victor Oye in moves to frustrate the petition filed by the 2019 governorship candidate of the party, Mr. Alex Otti.

Otti, who came third in the last governorship poll, is currently engaged in a legal battle to reclaim his “stolen mandate.”

In a statement made available to journalists in Umuahia, the state chairman of APGA, Hon. Nkem Okoro, alleged that the party was aware of a high level conspiracy by former state officials of the party to scuttle Otti’s case with Oye’s backing.

Former state chairman of APGA, Revd Augustine Ehiemere, who is now leading a faction, was said to have hired a lawyer with a brief to kill off the petition by withdrawing the party from the case on the ground that the party was not involved in the petition filed by its governorship flag bearer.

Okoro said it was regrettable that APGA national chairman decided to collaborate with “the enemies” of the party to torpedo the efforts to recover Otti’s mandate at the tribunal.

He stated that Oye was out to betray his own party in Abia just because he has some grudges against the party’s governorship candidate, accusing the national chairman of instigating the crises rocking the party in many states of the South-east in his desperation to return as the national chairman of APGA.

He expressed shock that the former state chairman of the party could apply for the withdrawal of APGA from the petition at a time the tribunal had fixed a date for the adoption of the written addresses of parties in the suit.