‘APC Will Win SouthEast States In 2019’

The  All Progressives Congress Forum of Chairmen, in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country,  has said that the party will take over power in the five states  of the zone in 2019.

The forum comprising of APC party chairmen in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo and Enugu states respectively made the declaration in Abakaliki during the party’s zonal meeting on Saturday.

 Addressing party stalwarts during the event held at the Adig Hotels, Owerri, Imo  State, the APC chairman, Dr. Hillary Eke, said the party had all it takes to clinch all elective positions in the zone in the 2019 general elections.

“We have resolved to work assiduously to ensure the victory of the APC during the next elections; we are going round the zone to make sure that the APC is intact.”

“The party recognised Chief Ben Nwaobasi as the Chairman of the APC in Ebonyi State, our mission is to strengthen the party and reposition it,” he said.

Eke added, “The PDP is still in Ebonyi State not because people like them and voted for them, God has given you the opportunity in 2019, you have what is called federal might. Nobody can come to your house again and whisk you away.”

In their separate speeches, the APC chairmen for Anambra, Abia  and Enugu states, Emeka Ibe, Donatus Nwaba, and Dr. Ben Nwoye respectively, boasted that the APC would “conquer the South-East in 2019.”

“We don’t want one party system and our President has said it severally and we will not be a part of it, but we will win the South-East’s states in 2019 because when the PDP was in power, we were regarded as visitors, we were regarded as renegades but now we are in charge,” Ibe said.

Earlier in his welcome remarks, the Ebonyi State Chairman of the party, Nwobasi, had commended the party chieftains for attending the dinner, adding that the meeting had strengthened the APC.

 He assured them that he would continue to carry members of the party along in all his dealings.

In his contribution, the National Coordinator of the Buhari/Osinbanjo Initiative  for demonstrative Change,  Chinedu Ogah, described the APC as an organised party with good programmes and policies that would better the lot of the masses.

He declared that there was no division in the APC in Ebonyi State, describing such insinuation as the handiwork of mischief makers.

“Nwaobasi remains the chairman of the party in the state, and I urge the public not to be deceived by the negative tendencies of some people,” he noted.

Chieftains of the party that attended the event included Senator Emmanuel Agboti, renowned banker, Mr. Mike Chukwu, and a former member of the House of Representatives, Peter Edeh.