{"id":98773,"date":"2022-08-31T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98773"},"modified":"2022-08-31T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:59:06","slug":"ukaegbu-takes-over-abia-apga-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ukaegbu-takes-over-abia-apga-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukaegbu takes over Abia APGA chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1742623126834165431\" data-legacy-message-id=\"182f0a804454b6b7\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":qe\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":qd\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Factional chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), in Abia State, has taken over the secretariat of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ukaegbu took over the secretariat following the April 7, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division which confirmed him as the substantive chairman of the party in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Rev. Augustine Ehiemere led state executive council filed a motion asking the court to dismiss the judgment. But the court dismissed the suit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Heavily armed policemen had earlier taken over the area before Ukaegbu arrived the secretariat with 15 members of the state executive council of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The party executives later went into a meeting.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ukaegbu, in a chat with Pointblanknews.com, disclosed that his take over of the party secretariat followed the judgement of Owerri Appeal Court which confirmed him as the state Chairman of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The party boss said he is on a rescue mission to retake APGA and return it to the vision of the founding fathers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He further disclosed that founding members of the party have been calling on him to return to rescue APGA from those they described as political merchants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8221;We just took over the party secretariat. The party will sit down, review some issues. We just met for an hour and took some important decisions. I have the backing of 22 out of the 26 members of the State Executive members.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ukaegbu also disclosed that the state executive committee have suspended four members of the party including the former state chairman, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere; former state secretary, Sunday Onukwubiri; former state legal adviser, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, and one other official, over alleged embezzlement of N56m belonging to the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He explained that Ehiemere has been sitting on the petition over the alleged embezzlement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On his alleged pact with the PDP, Ukaegbu dismissed the allegation as unfounded, stressing that the former chairman, Ehiemere rather used the party as a tool of merchandize.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the former chairman, Rev. 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