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Leadership: APC is on vacation, Says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a vacation from leadership, attributing this to the spate of crises and destruction happening in the country.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in an interview shortly after the inauguration of the new National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, noted that a president of a country is supposed to be a “consoler-in-chief”.

“But in Nigeria there is an absolute lack of leadership. That is why you find 40 to 50 people dying every day and it looks normal,” he said.

Ologunagba said the present leadership in the country is on vacation, and regretted that Nigeria is disintegrating under a retired general.

“A president who does not care. When people are killed rather than sympathise, they blame them. You recall farmers that were killed in their farms some time ago (and) somebody said they didn’t get permission to their farms.

“What kind of inhuman people do we have in leadership? But I say Nigerians know better and they want to change,” he said.

Ologunagba said PDP is now repositioned to solve Nigeria’s problems.

According to him, the outcome of the party’s National Convention showed that if Nigeria is handed over to the PDP, “it can solve all the contradictions in Nigeria – ethnicism, religious consideration, tribal consideration.

“PDP has collectively agreed to be democratic, to do the right thing, to follow rules and their regulations and more importantly to follow their constitution, APC does not. And everywhere they go, they defile the constitution. They have no respect for life and property,” he said.

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APC national leadership to decide on party leader in Anambra State

Johnchuks Onuanyim, Abuja

It is pertinent that the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) might decide on who is the leader of the party in Anambra State as the Minister of Labour and National Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige and the governorship candidate of the party in the last election in the state, Senator Andy Ubah are laying claim to the position.

Senator Ngige had hitherto been the leader of APC in the state, but Senator Ubah and his supporters over the weekend said as the governorship candidate of the party in the last election, he automatically assumes the position of the state’s APC leader.

The state’s party Chairman, Hon. Basil Ejidike, who set the tone of discussion at a meeting of the APC stakeholders in Abuja, said though the party’s constitution was silent on who is the leader of APC in a state, it has been a convention that the state governor or governorship candidate assumes that position until another election.

Ejidike, therefore conferred that position on Andy Ubah as the governorship candidate of the party, stressing that the stakeholders would present the same to the national leadership.

Two factions of Anambra APC, one loyal to the Minister of Labour and National Productivity, Senator Ngige, and the other to Senator Andy Ubah, had last weekend held meetings differently laying claim to the leadership of the party.

At the meeting of the faction of Andy Ubah, which was held in his office in Maitama in Abuja, they also resolved to sustain the suspension of the State Secretary of the party, Chukwuma Agufugo, who was accused of anti-party activities.

During the meeting, presided over by Ejidike, which was also attended by serving and former members of the State House of Assembly, House of Representatives and among other stakeholders, Ebere Obi moved the motion seeking the party to, in accordance with the party’s tradition, adopt Andy Ubah, being the candidate of the party in the governorship election, as the leader of the party in the state.

The motion was unanimously endorsed by all the stakeholders present, after it was seconded by former Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Chinwe Nwaebili.

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