APGA to Adopt Jonathan as presidential candidate

APGA to adopt Jonathan as presidential
candidate

BY CHRIS OCHAYI
The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has fixed
December 17, 2014 for a Special National Convention to
formally ratify the appointment of the Anambra State
Governor Chief Wiliie Obiano as its leader and Chairman of
the Board of Trustees, BOT.
The party will also use the Special National Convention to
adopt President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential
candidate, approve and adopt the APGA amended
Constitution.
The National Working Committee (NWC) also suspended the
Abia State Chairman of the party, Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu
from APGA with immediate effect for what it termed
palpable anti-party activities and directed its National Vice
Chairman South-East, Uchenna Okogbuo who is also from
the state to oversee, coordinate and manage the affairs of
the party in conjunction with the Abia state Executive
Committee of the party.
The party while rising from a meeting of its NWC in Abuja,
also considered and approved the outcome of the Screening
Exercise for the National Assembly aspirants in Anambra
State.
The National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh and
National Secretary Dr. Sani Abdulahi Shinkafi said In a
statement that the NWC resolved that the purported
clearance of Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu by the 5-man
National Assembly Screening Appeal Panel be reversed and
his non clearance be restored for the following reasons.
According to them, “The 5-man National Assembly
Screening Appeal Panel became truncated and therefore
improperly constituted when it did not sit as a full panel in
accordance with Article 23(2) of the APGA Electoral
Guidelines for primary elections 2014.

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