Ebonyi Crisis: APC Confirms Eze As Acting Chairman

The All Progressives Con
gress (APC), has confirmed Mr Nwachukwu Eze as the acting chairman of the party in Ebonyi State.
A High Court sitting in Abakaliki on September 28, struck out the case brought before it by a factional Chairman of the party, Mr Ben Nwaboashi.
Nwaobashi had challenged his removal from office by the Eze-led faction and the court presided over by Justice John Igboji struck out the case for lack of merit, saying that the removal followed due process.
Nwaboashi and Eze had been laying claims to the chairmanship position of the party since January until the September 28 ruling, which was in Eze’s favour.
The APC South East Zonal Chairman, Chief Emma Enukwu, told newsmen that the zone had recognised Eze as the authentic chairman of the party in the state.
“This is in line with the report of the committee set up by the party to review the lingering leadership tussle that had engulfed the Ebonyi chapter of the party.
“We are waiting for the final ratification by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)”, he said.
On his part, Eze said he would concentrate on repositioning the party.
He said Nwaobashi’s supporters would be welcome into the fold but with the condition of maintaining discipline.
“Anyone who engages in anti-party activities will be sanctioned.
Nwaobashi, however, said that the process was flawed, adding, “I don’t want to engage in a press war over this illegality”.
Meanwhile, the APC in Ekiti State has criticized Justice Sylvester Ungwuta of the Supreme Court over claim that the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and his Science and Technology counterpart, Ogbonnaya Onu, allegedly tried to influence him to remove People’s Democratic Party governors for Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, and their Ebonyi counterpart, Dave Umahi, in the election petitions appeals.