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The Abia State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has supported the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu for calling on Governor Alex Otti to return to the ruling party at the centre.
This is even as the State Executive Council of the party has vowed to suspend one Okey Ezeala for parading himself as the APC Publicity Secretary in Abia and issuing an unauthorized statement on behalf of the EXCO.
The Abia APC Chairman, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu who made the position of the party known in a statement on Saturday, said that the state chapter of the party was solidly behind Kalu and reiterated the call on Otti to return to its folds.
Ononogbu described Ezeala as an inconsistent character who engages in anti-party activities and unauthorised utterances.
He disclosed that the state exco will be summoning Ezeala who apologised to the State Governor on behalf of the party to explain when he became the spokesperson of Abia APC and who authorized him to speak in such a matter.
According to him, Ezeala’s role as the publicity secretary of the party ended the day he bought a form to contest for the position of the State House of Assembly in the 2023 election, saying that, in line with the rules, he is supposed to relinquish his role.
Ononogbu enjoined members of APC in Abia to remain calm as the State Executive Committee was handling the matter, stating that the name of the publicity secretary of the party in the state will be announced soon.
He called on members of the party to be more united and firm in supporting the Deputy Speaker as well as working hard to win more souls for the party and take over government in Abia, come 2027.
Ononogbu said: “We came across news report where one Okey Ezeala ‘apologised’ to Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, claiming he was apologizing for the bold invitation extended by one of our party leaders, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu to the Abia Governor to join APC.
“Okey Ezeala’s apology is unauthorised, fake, unsolicited, hypocritical, and smacks of bitterness and disrespect for the person and office of the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt Hon Benjamin Kalu. Ezeala claimed he was apologizing on behalf of the APC.
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