Factional Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Chief Chekwas Okorie has condemned the call for his arrest by the Victor Oye faction of the party saying describing it as a preposterous demand that either lacks understanding of issues being canvassed or a deliberate attempt to obfuscate a legitimate call for a just cause.
In a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen,Chief Okorie who wondered where Victor Oye and his likes were when he founded APGA in 2002, said he chooses to step aside from the party so as not to destroy a vision that encapsulates the political aspirations of Ndigbo. “I voluntarily surrendered the certificate of our great party to INEC in 2012”.
“INEC wrote to me in 2009 to reaffirm my chairmanship of APGA. These are facts that can be checked at the relevant agencies. It is also in my book, APGA and the Igbo Question”he said.
“A delegation was led to my home to apologise and plead with me to return to the party I founded by Chief Edozie Njoku and the NWC”.
“I really had no option but to accept and I re-registered as a member”. Okorie further noted that his activism and political struggles of the past 46 years have been about Ndigbo; their welfare in the greater Nigeria and a better country where we all exist and progress as a nation. “People who are beneficiaries of fraudulent practices are panicked because the truth has come out. I have long expected them to throw everything they have at me. Nigeria’s security agencies are well aware of my residences”.ReplyForward
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