Alex Otti In Trouble As APC Vows To Take Over Abia In 2027

Alex Otti In Trouble As APC Vows To Take Over Abia In 2027

 

 

Ahead of the 2027 general election, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia State chapter, has vowed to deliver President Bola Tinubu and unseat Governor Alex Otti of the Labour Party.

 

 

The party chieftains stated categorically that their determination to capture the government house of Abia State come 2027 was uncompromising.

 

They made the declaration at a meeting attended by APC National Welfare Secretary, Donatus Nwankpa, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, former commissioner for finance, Obinna Oriaku, Ndukwe Adindu, Sam Ikiri, Mike Nwabara, Anyim Nyerere, Nze Esiaga, Chidi Maduekwe, Ndukwe Maxwell, Nnanna Kalu and Emeka Atuma, among others.

 

Their decision to work together was reached at a reconciliation meeting held at the residence of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu on Friday in Abuja.

 

Addressing journalists at the end of the meeting, former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu said they resolved to support Tinubu in his quest for re-election in 2027.

 

He said: “We have a President that has done first term and will be going for a second term. If he is doing second term, Abia needs to also align to the centre because we cannot afford to be speaking differently.

 

 

“The consensus of the South East over 2027 is that the zone will do very well in supporting President Tinubu and I challenge them to mark my words.”

 

Earlier, APC National Welfare Secretary, Donatus Nwankpa said the meeting was called for the purpose of redirecting the party and consolidating the gains the party has made in recent times.

 

He said, “We want to beg all of them to please, in the interest of the generality of the party, bury whatever individual differences, personal idiosyncrasies, and come together to put the party together.

 

 

“In our party, we want to assure them that our support is unshakable, our loyalty to their leadership is unshakable; our determination to capture the government house of Abia State come 2027 is uncompromising.

 

“We have the goodwill of the people and it is in favour of APC in Abia State. We want to assure the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that APC is not going to beg anybody to give him 25 per cent, but we are assuring him that APC will come first in 2027 elections in Abia State.

 

“And that Abia State APC endorses his continuity as the President of Nigeria for the purpose of actualising those policies, those economic and social reforms that he has started and we are commending the genuineness of his determination to keep Nigeria right, we all praying for him.”