APGA gives Abaribe 24 hours to clarify alleged ADC ties or face sanctions

…Don’t enactment connected rumours, Aide tells party

By Steve Oko

UMUAHIA — The Abia State section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has issued Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South) a 24-hour ultimatum to clarify his alleged romance with the African Democratic Congress (ADC) oregon look disciplinary action.

In a connection signed by its Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, aft a caucus gathering successful Umuahia connected Tuesday night, APGA accused Abaribe of abandoning the enactment and “hobnobbing” with ADC aft winning re-election to the Senate connected APGA’s platform.

The enactment alleged that Abaribe convened meetings astatine his lawsuit centre successful Aba connected August 18 and September 23 wherever helium openly promoted ADC, and cited a caller vigor programme wherever the Abia ADC caput claimed Abaribe was not lone a subordinate but besides person of the enactment successful the state.

APGA said the legislator had shunned invitations to conscionable with the party’s leadership, describing his behaviour arsenic a usurpation of APGA’s constitution.

“Extant laws forbid a idiosyncratic from belonging to 2 governmental parties astatine the aforesaid time. Senator Abaribe cannot beryllium to APGA and ADC simultaneously,” the connection read.

“He is hereby fixed 24 hours from the merchandise of this property connection to refute oregon contradict the speculation of his ADC membership, publicly, done some people and physics media, failing which the enactment volition instrumentality punctual disciplinary action.”

Abaribe’s campy reacts

Reacting, Abaribe’s media aide, Uchenna Awom, dismissed the ultimatum arsenic premature and based connected speculation.

“Senator Abaribe is alive. As APGA person successful Abia, the enactment has each the channels to entree him. They should constitute to him and perceive from him straight alternatively of dwelling connected rumours,” Awom said.

Asked if Abaribe had defected to ADC, helium replied: “As an experienced politician, helium knows however to spell astir specified matters. Has helium communicated to them that helium has near APGA? They shouldn’t prosecute successful arm-twisting to extract words from him.”

Abaribe, who entered the Senate successful 2007 nether the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and won 3 re-elections earlier joining APGA successful 2023, is presently serving his 5th term.

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