A major stakeholder of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Enugu East senatorial zone, Maj.Gen.Christian Ugwu (retired), has convened a strategic meeting on president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election.
Ugwu who was also immediate past Nigeria Ambassador to Poland, said the stakeholders meeting was organised in Enugu on Saturday to discuss and to develop strategic mechanism that would prioritise plans towards securing reasonable votes for Tinubu’s re-election comes 2027.
Ambassador Ugwu hinted that members explored new ideas on critical re-examination, revolving on the poor performances of the APC in the 2023 general election in the state.
Ugwu explained that the party would do everything possible to improve from the previous election which the party recorded less than one per cent of the vote for Mr President.
The APC Chieftain said that they have started mobilising grassroots members of the APC for the re-election bid of president Tinubu.
He maintained that APC Enugu is United and promised to resolve any internal crisis within the party to ensure a better result.
Retired general said that the meeting was going to be a monthly meeting to ensure that Mr President receive overwhelming support of all sundry across the state this time around.
Ugwu commended the stakeholders for coming out en mass despite the short notice.
He condemned the expulsion of some party members, especially, the founding members of the party and said that he would ensure that all cases in court were withdrawn to make party great in Enugu State, adding that their doors are open for more members.
On his part, the South East Coordinator of Tinubu-Shettima Movement and former Zonal chairman of APC, Enugu East Senatorial Zone, Chief Chukwuemeka Anike, thanked President Tinubu for the appointments he gave to Sen.Ken Nnamani and Chief Eugene Odo former speaker of Enugu state House of Assembly.
Anike said that Enugu State would reciprocate by giving him their maximum support in 2027.
While thanking the President for the appointments, he however expressed disappointment on the appointment of Chief Uche Nnaji, the Minister of Science and Innovation whom he described as a sleeping minister.
Anike lamented that Nkanu people had notable educated men and women from the Zone and wondered why it was Nnaji who allegedly had a questionable certificate that was picked.
“If he, Uche Nnaji ,has a problem with his CV, and if the federal government calls him a sleeping minister, it is not us. We are not supporting anything that is bad,” he declared.
Also speaking, another stakeholder of the party, Mr Kingsley Nnamchi said that the meeting was convened to encourage members to renew their faith in the party, pointing out that before now some people were discouraged from participating actively in the activities of the party because of some in-house crisis that bedevilled the party in the past.
“Before now, some of our members were feeling discouraged. They are having this impression that we were divided, that the party is factionalised in Enugu State but as you can see, there is nothing like division. We are one. We are one progressive minds. We are going home with the belief that our party is now stronger.
“As for 2027, we are ready and are working so hard to see that APC wins in different positions, pointing out that more people are coming into APC by defecting from their political parties.
The stakeholders at the meeting include, all the local government party chairmen, Secretary and other executive in the zone, state organising Secretary, zonal woman leader among others.