Enugu PDP distances self from APC N1.3bn-fraud protest

The Peoples Democratic Party in Enugu State has distanced itself from a Monday protest by All Progressives Congress members against the state APC chairman, Ugochukwu Agballah, and its (APC’s) candidate for governor, Uche Nnaji, over their alleged involvement in a N1.3 billion fraud.Information Guide Nigeria

The PDP claimed that it would not have bothered to comment on what should have been an APC matter if not for the accusation that the party and its candidate for governor, Peter Mbah, were behind the demonstration.

It demanded that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probe the serious claims made by prominent APC party officials against Chief Ugo Agballah and Chief Uche Nnaji, according to a story from The Sun.

The Director of Communications and Spokesman, Enugu State PDP Campaign Council, Nana Ogbodo, noted that it was not a fight between the PDP and the APC but “squarely a fight between angry and deprived APC members and a greedy and conceited party leadership,” while addressing newsmen at a press conference held at the Peter Mbah Campaign Headquarters, Independent Layout, Enugu, on Tuesday.NYSC portal

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Ogodo reported that the protesters who stormed the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday alleged that the party chairman, Agballah, and the governorship candidate, Nnaji, were involved in a N1.3 billion fraud in the state, with their leader and chairman, Concerned Members of Enugu State APC, Adolphus Ude, telling newsmen that they were at the secretariat to vent their anger over the matter and asked the party’s national leadership to intervene,

Reacting to the APC’s accusation that the PDP sponsored the protest, Ogbodo said, “We have, as usual, been dragged into a purely APC affair by the loquacious Ugochukwu Agballah, who has claimed that the protesters were sponsored by the PDP. Of course, Agballah’s penchant for looking for scapegoats rather than face his demons is legendary.JAMB portal

“Besides, the APC has never been a factor in elections in Enugu State, let alone now that all the key stakeholders of the APC in Enugu have abandoned the party to Ugochukwu Agballah and his godfathers.

“If the APC was in the ICU before his controversial emergence as the state chairman, the party has now been effectively embalmed and consigned to the mortuary by the totalitarian, greedy, and corrupt leadership of Agballah and his two godfathers.”JAMB Result

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