Umeh says APC is anti-masses, wants Citizens to return Jonathan to implement Confab report

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) national chairman, Chief Victor Umeh has described the implementation of the more than 630 recommendations

of the last year's National Conference that seek a new restructured, all-inclusive polity, as the cardinal reason why Nigerians should trust and re-elect President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential poll.

Umeh who is the Anambra Central senatorial candidate for APGA in the coming election, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen yesterday in Agulu-uzoigbo, Anaocha council, yesterday ahead a tactical meeting of his campaign team with all the national and state assemblies candidates and chairmen of the 7 LGAs within the senatorial zone, said that it was very unfortunate for those touting their love for unity and development of the nation under the All Progressives Congress(APC) even when the party dissociated itself and stayed away from the national conference where the future and unity of the nation was openly discussed.

He gave kudos to Jonathan for taking up the challenge of organizing the conference which many other leaders before him dared not discuss. Umeh urged Nigerians to massively vote to re-elect Jonathan to enable him implement the recommendations of the conference for a new Nigeria where justice, fairness and equal rights prevail.

According to him, "it is clear that since the APC opposed the conference, it would foolhardy of anyone to think they would touch the recommendations, let alone implement same, should they get elected. They are therefore anti-masses, despite all their antics and noise..."

Again, on the reported "rascal comments" of one of APGA member in Lagos state, one Mr Nick Campbell Nzekwe, Umeh described it as unfortunate if he actually said so. He dissociated the party from the said comments, insisting that the appropriate party machinery had been put in motion to tackle and refute the unfortunate comments from someone he described as "a prodigal son".

He emphasized that Mr Nzekwe was never his adviser, or officer of the party whatsoever, hence has no powers to speak on behalf of the party at all.

Umeh reaffirmed that APGA supports Jonathan, and the resolution to support him was passed and adopted in the special convention of the party of Dec 17, 2014 in Awka, with clearly stated reasons, one of which was the implementation of the recommendations of the national conference.

He therefore described Nzekwe's comments as irresponsible, reckless and should be discountenanced by every reasonable citizen as coming from a compromised mind.