APC Member, Mbadiwe Okongwu Dumps Party To Join APGA In Nnewi

                                         

  The net of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) caught a big
fish yesterday when a celebrated stalwart of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) Arch. Reuben Mbadiwe Okongwu dumped his party to
embrace APGA.

odogwuemekaodogwu.com informs that the APC strongman who contested for the state House of Assembly in
the 2011 general election made a grand return to the All Progressives
Grand Alliance in ceremony that took place at the residence of the
Ezeigbo gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu , the deceased natural
leader of the party.
  Arch Okongwu who was a Commanding Officer of the defunct Biafran
Army and current chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nnewi Town
Union (Nzukoora Nnewi) said that he decided to dump the All
Progressives Congress for the betterment of his community . He pointed
out that his decision was solely hinged on his intention to give his
support to the administration of Chief Willie Obiano, the state
governor and in the process attract the government's attention to some
deplorable roads and collapsed infrastructure in the industrial town
of Nnewi .
The former APC stalwart recalled that he has alway being a member of
the All Progressives Grand Alliance before his adventure into the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN) which later metamorphosed into the All Progressives Congress
(APC)
  He told the teeming APGA faithful that gathered to receive him and
his followers back to the party's fold that he was not returning to
contest for any elective position but to work harmoniously with the
existing party structure in the area.
  Arch Okongwu expressed the optimism that the administration of the
day would take the state to its promised land and that what is
expected of the good people of the state is to join hands together and
give the governor all the necessary backing.
  In his speech, the sole administrator of Nnewi North Local
Government Area Chief Emeka Ojukwu (Jnr) said that the entry of the
APC strongman and his followers back into the All Progressives Grand
Alliance was indeed a big catch for his party.
He pointed out the state governor gave him a clear mandate to enlarge
the party in the industrial town of Nnewi when he was given the job to
pilot the affairs of the council area.
Chief Ojukwu revealed that he had earlier on set up a committee
charged with the responsibility of restructuring the party in the
area.
  Chief JCN Ikejuiba, John Harris Mbonu, Hon Kenneth Ndubuishi and
many other eminent personalities attended the ceremony.

From Isaac Ojo