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Alleged N1.3bn Fraud: Enugu APC Members Take Protest To National Secretariat

We’re yet to receive funds, says state party chair

by George Agba
2 years ago
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The crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over alleged N1.3billion fraud took a dramatic dimension on Monday, as aggrieved members of the party took a protest to the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Specifically, the protesters accused the state chairman of the party, Ugochukwu Agballah and the governorship candidate, Uche Nnaji, of “impunity, gross misconducts, fraudulent administration, embezzlement of party funds, and impunity.”

Addressing journalists during the protest, eader of the protesters and chairman, Concerned Members of Enugu State APC, Adolphus Ude, said they were there to express their worry over the brazen manner in which the state chairman and the governorship candidate embezzled about $1.5 million (N1.050 billion) being allowances for Enugu State delegates in the 2022 national convention and presidential election.

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He alleged that the duo misappropriated the sum of N283 million meant for the expression of interest and nomination forms to ensure that the party fields candidates for the governorship, and all the National Assembly and State Assembly seats in Enugu State to shore the party’s fortunes and also ensure that the party secures at least 25 percent of votes cast in the 2023 presidential election in the state.

Ude who is also chairman, Mainstream Enugu APC and pioneer deputy chairman, Enugu State of the party, noted that they were in Abuja to urge the national leadership of the party to wade into the matter with a view to compell them to release the funds.

He said, “These and related matters such as the irregular and controversial emergence of the new state executive, which are also before the courts, were laid before the national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, while he was the chairman of the APC Reconciliation Committee.

 

 

“Our notable party leaders in the state were also on a protest visit to the national leadership in August 2022 where they submitted a petition calling for the removal of Ugochukwu Agballah as the State party chairman and appointment of a Caretaker Chairman to save the state chapter of the party from destruction and disgrace.

“The signatories and delegation included Senator Ken Nnamani, former President of the Senate; Mr. Geofrey Onyeama, Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sullivan Chime, former Governor of Enugu State; Barr. Eugene Odo, former Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly; Ambassador Christian Ugwu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Poland, among many others.

“Although the chairman promised to look into the issues, we can understand that pressing party matters such as the national convention and presidential primary, overseeing the various primary elections and the party’s preparations for the 2023 general election, which he had to undertake immediately after his election as the national chairman must have preoccupied him.

“Unfortunately, all the issues we forewarned against and more are happening in the Enugu State chapter of the party and we believe that unless urgent and drastic steps are taken, the party faces a disastrous and scandalous outing in the state in the forthcoming general election.

“There is also the issue of hijack of the funds provided for preparation for the forthcoming 11th January 2023 presidential rally in Enugu and visit by our presidential candidate, Awiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.”

The protesters further noted that though serious damage has already been done to the party by Agballah and Nnaji who, according to them, are not interested in the wellbeing and victory of the APC but only in making brisk business at the expense of the party, the party national leadership, President Muhammadu Buhari and other party bigwigs could still work with the leaders of the APC in the state to remedy the situation before the general election.

Calling for the sack of the state chairman, Ude said, “We are calling for the immediate removal of Agballah as the chairman of the APC in Enugu State and the appointment of a Caretaker Chairman to pilot the party through the 2023 general election.

“We call on the national leadership of the party to cause Agballah and Nnaji to immediately make available to the state’s delegates to the national convention and presidential primary election the allowances totaling about $1.5 million given to them.

“We call on the national leadership of the APC to cause Agballah and Nnaji to immediately account for the sum of N283 million released to them for the expression of interest and nomination forms for all the elective offices in Enugu in the 2023 general election.

“We call on the national leadership of the party to cause Agballah and Nnaji to release the funds made available for the preparations for the forthcoming presidential rally in Enugu.

“As loyal party members, we re-emphasise the need to address with dispatch these issues raised in our protest letter submitted here in order to reposition our party for resounding impact in the presidential election in the Enugu State.”

But director-general of Nwakaibie Uche Nnaji Campaign Organisation, Fidelis Edeh, said the national headquarters of APC should confirm if such funds were released.

“APC should be the one to confirm and not the candidate,” he said.

Reacting to the development, the state chairman explained the claims made are untrue, insisting that they were yet to be mobilised financially by the national leadership.

“We’re yet to get any money. The governorship candidate is the person funding the campaigns,” he said.


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