Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
As the buildup to the November 8 gubernatorial election in Anambra State continues to gather momentum, a group known as Anambra Patriots for Soludo (APS) says it has begun search for aggrieved members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who had left the party since 2022.
The Convener of the APS, Arc Okey Ezeobi, disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a meeting organised by the leadership of the group in Awka, the State capital.
Ezeobi said the move was to ensure that the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, wins all the votes that will be cast in the forthcoming election.
“We observed that there are a lot of aggrieved APGA members who said they are not interested in the system anymore with the feeling that they had done so much but nothing has come in.
“In the spirit of Onye Aghana Nwanne Ya, our APGA Mantra, it is important for us to reach out to everybody to reconcile the differences to see a bigger picture ahead of us instead of looking at it on a personal level.
“APS has gone on that mission to search every nook and cranny of Anambra State for all our old APGA faithful who are hibernating because of what had happened in the past.
“This is one phase; it is something we are going to be doing consistently through the election period to make sure that we capture them and have a database of all of them in the 326 wards in Anambra State so that we can adequately address their situation,” Ezeobi said.
He expressed belief that with Governor Soludo’s achievements, the aggrieved members will have no point staying in other political parties.
Ezeobi, who is also the Managing Director, Anambra State Bureau of Public Procurement, recalled how the APS began, and explained that it had come up with a publication that contains Governor Soludo’s achievements so far.
He said the publication will soon be made public, and that APS will soon storm the entire markets in Anambra State for aggressive grassroots mobilisation movement to tell people the gospel of Governor Soludo and his achievements.
He stressed that Anambra is APGA land, and Soludo has no rival as far as the November 8 gubernatorial election in the state is concerned.
“We want Anambra to be APGAnised and Soludonised; that is the bottomline. Let us reconcile, to bring back the glory of APGA,” he said.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the APS, Chief Ejiamatu Damian Enekwechi, appealed to the aggrieved members to bury the hatchets, return to APGA, and join hands in supporting Governor Soludo, for the overall interest of ndi-Anambra.
Responding, some of the aggrieved members, Lady Njide Anusi, Dame Theresa Udemezue Okoye, Hon Friday Udensi, Mr Kneeth Emenike, among others, could not hide their grievances, but expressed readiness to rejoin the party.
