The governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said the national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku cannot suspend him from the party.
Soludo who responded to Njoku’s threat that his leadership of the party might suspend him and some other stalwarts of the party if they did not stop indulging in anti-party activities insisted that he is the APGA national leader, so, Njoku cannot suspend him.
Chief Njoku had on Wednesday at a Federal High Court, Abuja where he went for a proceeding filed by Soludo’s loyalists challenging his recognition as APGA national chairman by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) warned Soludo to stop hub-nobbing with those working against him as the authentic APGA national chairman or he would be suspended from the party.
But in his reaction, exclusively to LEADERSHIP Friday Soludo through his media aide, Mr Christian Aburime dismissed Chief Njoku’s threat as empty threat.
“It is an empty threat. Governor Soludo is the national leader. And he remains so”, Soludo’s media aide, Aburime insisted.
Chief Njoku who commended Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja for refusing to grant the application to restrain the INEC from recognising him as the authentic APGA national chairman while granting interview to newsmen at the Court premises said, “Remember what the chairman of the APGA BoT said that we, the National Working Committee of the party, should take action so that we don’t look like toothless bulldogs.
“One of those people to be suspended is the governor, and I’m saying, are we going to suspend the only governor we have?
“But if the only governor we have is pretending or playing to the gallery, making these honest people go in and commit anti-party activities, we must nip this in the bud. I don’t know what Soludo is playing at and I don’t know what his problem is, but he must conform himself under the party.”
Meanwhile, the factional APGA national chairman loyal to Soludo, Barr Sly Ezeokenwa has also insisted that Chief Njoku cannot suspend Soludo from the party.
Ezeokenwa insisted that Soludo remained the party’s national leader.
