‎Enugu APC Raises Alarm Over Plans to Frustrate Gov. Mbah’s Re-election

‎The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has frowned at the attitude of some people who it termed secessionists making efforts to frustrate the second term bid of Gov. Peter Mbah in the state.
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‎Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in the state, Dr Ben Nwoye, made the allegation when he received the state’s chapter of Asiwaju Renewed Mandate South East (ARMSE) led by its leader, Chief Josef Onoh, in his office on Monday in Enugu.
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‎Nwoye, who clarified that the ‘secessionists’ were not really people agitating for a separate country from Nigeria but groups within the state seeking for a new state out of Enugu State.
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‎He pointed out that there are different groups of new State agitators in Enugu State who are agitating for a new state to be created from the state and some in combination with other parts of other states from the South-East.
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‎Nwoye alleged that such agitators had been going round, making efforts to field some other candidates for the 2027 governorship election, sometimes from the same Senatorial district as Gov. Mbah and sometimes from outside the East Senatorial District which the rotation understanding in the state currently favours.
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‎He revealed that such efforts would be counter productive giving the excellent administration of Gov. Mbah in the state.
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‎Reacting, Onoh stated that such attempt to truncate Gov. Mbah’s re-election would erode the tripod rotational agreement entrenched by the founding fathers of Enugu State.
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‎Speaking on the reason for the visit to the party office, he said that beyond the mandate to campaign for President Tinubu’s re-election, they also felt compelled to campaign for Gov. Mbah’s re-election to enhance political stability in the state.
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‎Onoh traced the trajectory of rotation of governorship positions in Enugu state from 1999, as instituted by the state founding fathers such as Sen. Jim Nwobodo, late Chief C.C Onoh, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, among othere, adding that they entrenched peaceful political agreement in the state and which had maintained interrupted two terms per Governors of the state, starting in 1999.
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