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ABUJA – Hon Sam Onuigbo, House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Climate Change and member representing Ikwuano -Umuahia federal Constituency of Abia State has of Chief Ikechi Emenike, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the last election over his purported suspension along eight other chieftains of APC in Abia, noting that the desperate action was only diversionary.
He said the APC governorship candidate was merely trying to evade scrutiny over how he deployed and misused campaign funds placed at his disposal by the party with the effect that Abia APC could muster a paltry 8000 votes for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Hon has therefore urged the national leadership of the party to direct Emenike to account for how he disbursed the huge sums given for the election, as no cover up would suffice with the show of shame the party returned during the general election.
Chief Emenike had in a letter signed by the party’s Secretary, Chief Chidi Avajah, suspended nine chieftains of the party, among them Hon Onuigbo, for alleged anti party activities during the just-concluded general elections.
How Onuigbo who held the party’s Abia Central Senatorial District ticket but was surprisingly excluded from the scheme of things by Chief Emenike and his cohorts apparently because of the campaign funds dismissed the purported suspension as an action of a desperate man.
” They gave him money from the national party and he has to account for how he disbursed it.
” He was going about campaigning against me instead of campaigning for the APC and the President -elect. He lost in all the places he campaigned against me including his polling unit.”
” Despite all the money that the national leadership confirmed to us that was given to him for Abia, he was only able to deliver a paltry 8000 votes for the President- elect.”
The lawmaker who said he remained a bonafide member of the APC, insisted that his purported suspension “holds no water”.
” Suspension of members of a party is based on established anti-party activities. You don’t wake up in the morning and start suspending people; gather men like puppets and ask them to sign suspension letters.
” My Ward didn’t suspend me. I remain a bonafide member of APC, and I’m working here in Abuja with the National leadership, handling some very important matters concerning our party in the state.
“So, I don’t see the basis for such a frivolous, and absolutely irresponsible and reckless letter”.
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