APC Replaces Convention Secretary, Uwajumogu With Ndoma-Egba

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has replaced the secretary of its national convention planning committee, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, resigned from the position with Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba.

Uwajumogu, while speaking with reporters in Abuja, yesterday, explained that his resignation was due to urgent need to attend to pressing family matters, even as he faulted speculations making the rounds that his resignation had to do with underhand dealings or Governor Rochas Okorocha’s opposition to his inclusion in the convention committee.

He said: “Now that I have resigned, I can only hope that my governor, Rochas Okorocha will spend more time in Imo State attending to the various issues that he has created for himself, because in the last two weeks, he has been here in Abuja running around for the convention and trying to put only people that are favourable to his policies.

“Okorocha has always threatened to leave the party if the Congresses were not reversed. I hear he has threatened to leave if my position was not taken…. This started more than two weeks ago and it is just a coincidence because I had made up my mind to leave.”

Subtly highlighting his political differences with Okorocha, the Senator disclosed that the governor “has 27 hospitals he said he has built, which have been overtaken by weeds. Imo state is a massive basket of fraud and I am very sure that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has the records.”

“It is very clear today, that this is no longer an Imo issue, but a Southeast issue. It is very clear now that the entire Southeast has lost confidence in the leadership of Rochas Anayo Okorocha and all we are saying is that Nigerians should take note that we no longer have him as our leader.

“My appointment was by the NWC and nobody has asked me to leave this position. The NWC met yesterday there was nowhere in their meeting where I was asked to resign. It is a decision I made by myself. However, in any decision you take, there must be political consequences.”

However, the party has subsequently appointed the chairman of the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Senator Ndoma-Egba to take the place of Uwajumogu.

National publicity secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who confirmed Uwajumogu ‘s resignation disclosed that the party hierarchy had since accepted the resignation, even as he dismissed reports that the former secretary was forced to resign as a way of acquiescing to the demands of his state governor, Rochas Okorocha who had threatened to dump the ruling party should his request for a new scribe be turned down.