{"id":90519,"date":"2022-01-09T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=90519"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:25:38","slug":"sen-orji-kalu-alex-otti-others-absent-as-apc-elects-new-state-chairman-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/sen-orji-kalu-alex-otti-others-absent-as-apc-elects-new-state-chairman-in-abia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen Orji Kalu, Alex Otti, others absent as APC elects new state chairman in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1721500025483474757\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The All Progressive Congress, (APC), Abia State chapter, has elected a new state chairman to replace the late chairman of the party, Deacon Enyinnaya Harbour with Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Dr. Alex Otti,Dr. Uche Ogah, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu absent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The APC in Abia is divided between the mainstream Chief Ikechi Emenike and Hon. Donatus Nwankpa faction. The Emenike group produced the ward, LGA and state executives of the party in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Deacon Harbour died in November 2021, after a brief illness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chairman of the special state congress committee, Mr. Kolawole Babatunde, stated that the national working committee of the APC had fixed the congress to fill the vacant position in the state executive committee of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He announced that Chief Kingsley Ononogbu polled a total of 1,069 votes to emerge chairman of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In his acceptance speech, the newly elected state chairman, Chief Kingsley Ononogbu promised to provide effective leadership to the party and urged APC members to work assiduously to win the governorship and presidential seats for the party in the 2023 general election.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressive Congress, (APC), Abia State chapter, has elected a new state chairman to replace the late chairman of the party, Deacon Enyinnaya Harbour with Senator Orji Uzor Kalu,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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