Enugu APC crisis deepens, as thugs disrupt meeting; Nwoye, Geoffrey Onyeama’s aide, others suspended

It was a rowdy session on Tuesday when no fewer than 200 political thugs stormed the Enugu State secretariat of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and disrupted the meeting of the State Caretaker Executive Committee.
The thugs, during the invasion, seized the Cameras of TVC and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) crew.
They also chased away people at the secretariat, including newsmen covering the meeting presided over by the State Caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye.
Nwoye had in the meeting, announced the suspension of former Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, and three members of the party, Flavour Eze, the Personal Assistant to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, El- Aja and Ada Ogbu.
He stated that the suspended members were sanctioned following their anti-democratic conducts during the last APC ward Congresses.
The Chairman explained that the suspension was part of the recommendations of a committee set up by the state Caretaker Working Committee to investigate the role of the suspended members at the ward congresses.
The Investigation Committee headed by the Enugu East zonal Caretaker Committee Chairman, Chief Anike Nwoga, found that the suspended members collected fictitious names in their respective zones which they filed in as ward executives.
Nwoye said that the report also disclosed that Odoh and the three other members allegedly hired some mercenaries whom they used in writing fake results of the ward congresses at the South-East zonal office of APC.
He added that the Committee discovered that the former Speaker took the forged result to INEC office on July 3 as directed by the Enugu Ward Congress Committee Chairman, Dr Ijeoma Arodiogbu, who was part of the masterminders of the alleged electoral fraud.
“The result forging scheme was executed by Eugene Odoh, Flavour Eze, Ada Ogbu and El- Aja, and we must say no to this undemocratic conducts.
“As a country and state, we must say no to these antics and undemocratic acts by some people who do not wish our great party well. We must let them know that power belongs to the people,” Nwoye said.
Nwoye, who received a vote of confidence by the State Exco during the meeting, had announced the appointment of Chief Tony Ibekwe as the new Acting Zonal Caretaker Committee Chairman for Enugu West chapter of the party, following the death of its former Chairman, Ikechukwu Omenkukwu, a few months ago.
Ejiofor Okoloagu was also named the state Chairman of the party in Igbo Etiti Local Government area of the state.
Reacting to his suspension by Nwoye group, former Speaker Odoh said, Nwoye was the former state chairman who has no powers to suspend any member of the party.
“He was suspended by over 40 members of SEC this morning and as such couldn’t have had the power or the required number to suspend anyone,” Odoh said.