Reinstated APGA Chairman urges unity

Chief Jude Okeke, the reinstated National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has called on all party members to unite ahead of the standalone governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo.

Okeke made the call on Thursday while addressing newsmen after obtaining the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Supreme Court judgment of his reinstatement in Abuja.

The apex court had on Friday, March 24, in a judgment, upheld Okeke as the authentic national chairman of the party following a four-year leadership tussle.

Okeke, who apologised to hurting members, said that whosoever had been offended in the process of the leadership struggle, should please not take it out on the party.

“APGA needs to reconcile, there are three elections coming up, Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo; the timetable will be out tomorrow and we are going to work hard to get our party together at the shortest period of time.

“I call on Chief Victor Oye and all the former members of National Working Committee (NWC), I call on all the people in the wards, I call on all the people in the Local Governments, let us unite and move this beautiful party forward.

“APGA is been very fortunate to have four different governors, tones of members of the House of Representatives and State House of Assembly and a few senators.

“We, in APGA, should be more conscious of the people that voted us in; they are very disappointed at the moment, we need to address that.

“We need to put all these aside and please rebuild the party; myself and the NWC will go into a meeting in the next few days and we will come out with some policy statements in some certain areas,” he said.

Okeke said that he would follow the right channel to occupy and resume duties at the national secretariat of the party.

The chairman said that he would not succumb to calls urging him to engage thugs and invade the national secretariat of the party.

He said that the Supreme Court judgment had finally settled the leadership tussles and the series of litigations that rocked the party over the past four years.

“Nigeria is banana republic, we are not baboons, there is always a process to things; a judgment came out yesterday, the certified true copy came out literally today.

“If you are going to the police, you have to serve them, if INEC is going to respond to you, you have to serve them, they have to read it to respond.

“Supreme Court has given us a major ammunition; from back channels, INEC has said we should send the copy and they will respond.

“I have had calls to take thugs and policemen to go and invade the party office but I will not operate that level of gutter, things will be done properly,” he said.