{"id":98410,"date":"2022-08-20T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98410"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T10:34:00","slug":"enugu-apc-expels-embattled-chairman-agballah-from-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/enugu-apc-expels-embattled-chairman-agballah-from-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu APC Expels Embattled Chairman , Agballah From Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"I_ZkbNhI D_FY W_6D6F\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv1269847330\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the All progressive Congress APC Friday evening took a new twist, as the Udi\/Agbudu political ward of the Embattled State Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah, announced his expulsion from the party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey had debarred him from holding party office, before pronouncing the expulsion.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe decision was announced by the ward, in Udi local government area of Enugu State.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to the expulsion letter signed by the Ward Chairman, Mr. Aduma Ferdinand and Mr. Onyia Francis, Secretary, made available to newsmen Friday night in Enugu, the Chairman was suspended from the party for failing to appear before a disciplinary Committee to answer to allegations leveled against him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nPointblanknews.com learnt that a member of the Ward had written a petition against Agballa, accusing him of not being a registered member of their party at the ward.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe petition equally alleged that Agballah has criminal charges pending against him at the Federal High Court Abuja bothering on falsification of APC party card.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOther allegations include running the party aground a development that may make it impossible for them to win election in 2023, not attending meetings of the party at the ward; not being a financial member.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHis other offences are, alleged embezzlement of the party funds meant for members during the last primary elections; removing registered members of the Party and replacing them with people who are not members of the party and that he hasn\u2019t resigned his membership of the PDP, amongst other.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nEfforts by our Correspondent to get reaction of the state publicity Secretary, Barrister Ako, and Agballa on the development failed, as their mobile phone lines could not go through as at the time of filing this report.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\" 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 crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the All progressive Congress APC Friday evening took a new twist, as the Udi\/Agbudu political ward of the Embattled State Chairman, Chief&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":83341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98410","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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