‘APGA’ll Bring Development In Abia’

All Progressive Grand Alliance  (APGA) has declared it was taking over Abia State to bring development to the area. APGA National chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, made the declaration when the national executive of the party officially received Governor Theodore Orji into the party at a ceremony where the people of Abia declared that they have commenced a journey of political revolution that was irrevocable.

Umeh who alongside the Deputy National Chairman of APGA, Chief Onwuka Ukwa, the National Secretary, Sanni Abdullahi Shinkafi, issued Orji with his party card membership with Registration Number 68812 (urban Ward 1), said that the party was not interested in taking Abia from another political party but to ensure that a conducive environment was created for development to take root. APGA has not come to take over Abia State but to create and enduring environment for sustainable development” Umeh said, adding “we have come to partner with Abia people to take their destiny into their own hands. They should be free to take decisions without any one dictating to them.” According to Umeh, APGA has come to “assure Abians that what happened in Anambra State that gingered development will begin to happen in Abia.” Umeh remarked that Governor Orji’s defection to APGA posed a great challenge but assured that the party would help him to surmount every obstacle that might come his way on account of dumping his former party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), pointing out that it would not in any way be equal to what APGA conquered in Anambra. “Abia is a small battle compared to the people we fought to set Anambra free,” he said, assuring Orji that he would enjoy great protection and immunity from APGA in his quest to bring Abia political freedom. “I will tell Abia people not to shake because we are equal to the challenge. We won’t sleep until Governor Orji is returned in 2011,” Umeh said as he urged other political leaders in Abia to declare for APGA. APGA’s Board of Trustee chairman, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who raised Orji’s hand severally to demonstrate his happiness that another state in the South East has embraced his party, assured the governor that he would stand by him at all times, urging him not to be afraid of anything. “If it war, I will fight for you. I am very happy. Abia has been set free to their kiths and kin in Igboland, from today, you are my son,” the former Biafran leader told Orji.

Earlier, Governor Orji said his former party, the PPA, pushed him to the wall and was justified to leave the party which was more interested in exposing him rather than protect him. He said as a leader who operates the peoples mandate, he took the decision to quit PPA in response to the clarion calls by the people and as well to liberate the people.