Ebonyi APC holds peaceful, successful LG congress

Ebonyi APC holds peaceful, successful LG congress
By Douglas Okoro
Congress
Abakaliki, May 12, 2018 (NAN) The Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Local Government Congress Committee for Ebonyi, Chief Nicholas Adekunle-Ajayi, has described the exercise as successful and peaceful.
Adekunle-Ajayi stated this at the party’s secretariat on Saturday in Abakaliki while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the congresses held across the 13 local government areas of the state.
He said that the huge success recorded was an indication of acceptance of the party in Ebonyi and commitment of party faithful to install an APC government in 2019.
Adekunle-Ajayi who monitored the exercise in five local government areas in company of the state party Chairman, Chief Eze Nwachukwu, and other party chieftains, described the congresses as peaceful, credible and successful.
He expressed delight on the large turnout of party faithful and their peaceful conduct at the congresses.
He said: “I score Ebonyi APC local government congresses so far so good is a huge success.
“We visited five local government areas cutting across the three Senatorial zones as a case study and what we found there was the enthusiasm of the people as a united members of a progressive party to make a change in Ebonyi.
“They were well coordinated and I have not seen it in the history of this country, highly mobilised and ready to take over governance in Ebonyi state for good.
“I equally know with what I have seen that if election is conducted in Ebonyi today that APC will win with about 70 per cent of declared votes.
“I want to thank and commend the APC family and urge them to maintain the peace and unity existing among members.
“We must get it right and we have gotten it right and from here we will move and Ebonyi will produce governor of APC extraction.”
Meanwhile, the state party chairman has applauded members for making the congresses resounding success in the various local governments.
Nwachukwu commended them for their peaceful conduct throughout the exercise, noting that no violence was recorded in any part of the state.
He said that the consensus arrangement freely adopted by stakeholders, leaders and aspirants in their different areas made the congresses largely peaceful, credible and acceptable to all.
“We visited five LGs where we monitored the congresses and observed to our delight very orderly, peaceful and enthusiastic party members who took part in a peaceful LG congress.
“We have laid a foundation for a peaceful transition of power from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to an APC government in 2019,” Nwachukwu said.
Dr Paul Okorie, an APC chieftain from Ohaozara local government area of the state, also told newsmen that the exercise was wonderful and very peaceful.
He explained that the successful outcome of the exercise would make those who are still in doubt that Ebonyi APC has become one united family.
Okorie, who once served the state as Commissioner for Works, Transportation and Environment, said that the successful conduct of the congresses would make the party come out stronger and better.
Okorie who is also a governorship aspirant commended the leadership of the party for ensuring peaceful, credible and transparent congresses.
“The exercise has been wonderful and we are happy about it and our consensus arrangement made the exercise devoid of tension and friction, ” he said.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the congresses in Abakaliki, Ishielu, Ohaozara, Ezza South and Onitcha local government areas reported that the exercise was peaceful, transparent and orderly. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola