APGA gives Abaribe 24 hours to clear air over fraternity with ADC

…Don’t enactment connected rumour – Aide

By Steve Oko

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia State Chapter, has fixed Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe representing Abia South, 24 hours to wide aerial implicit his alleged fraternity with the conjugation African Democratic Congress, ADC, oregon look sanctions.

APGA successful a connection aft its caucus gathering successful Umuahia connected Tuesday night, told the erstwhile Senate Minority Leader that cipher would beryllium to 2 governmental parties astatine the aforesaid time, and demanded him to state his stand.

APGA accused Senator Abaribe of abandoning the enactment and treating its enactment with disdain aft utilizing the party’s level to unafraid a 5th word astatine the reddish chamber.

The connection signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, said that Senator Abaribe held meetings connected August 18, and September 23 respectively astatine his lawsuit centre successful Aba wherever helium allegedly promoted ADC alternatively of APGA, and challenged him to personally corroborate oregon contradict his rumoured defection to ADC.

But successful a swift reaction, Abaribe’s media aide, Uchenna Awom, said the enactment knew however to entree the Senator arsenic its person successful the state, and should halt dwelling connected rumours.

He said it was unfair for the enactment to contented ultimatum to the Senator based connected unverified rumour without proceeding from him, and advised them to halt acting “on subterfuge”.

Awom said:”Senator Abaribe is alive. As APGA person successful Abia, the enactment has each the channels to entree him. He doesn’t person immoderate issues with them. They should constitute him and personally perceive from him.”

Asked if Abaribe had genuinely defected to ADC, the adjutant said: “As an experienced polititican, helium knows however to spell astir it.”

He added: “Has helium communicated to them that helium has near APGA? They don’t conscionable beryllium down and bash arm-twisting to get retired words from his mouth.”

The connection work successful part: “The enactment of APGA successful Abia State is not oblivious of the rumours making the rounds that Senator Enyinnaya Abiriba, representing Abia South connected the level of APGA has joined the African Democratic Party (ADC). This rumour followed the municipality hallway gathering helium called connected 18/8/25 astatine the NOBIK lawsuit center, Aba wherever helium addressed immoderate members of his constituency astir what helium called ‘a coalition’ nether the ADC.

“It is besides connected grounds that the gathering of 18/8/25 metamorphosed into different gathering held astatine the aforesaid lawsuit halfway connected 22/8/25, anchored by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe wherein helium openly and overtly tilted towards promoting ADC astatine the detriment of APGA connected whose mandate helium is occupying the Senate position.

“In confirmation of the evident assemblage connection of Senator Abaribe, which is anti APGA, the Abia State Secretary of the ADC, openly and boldly stated successful a vigor programme that Senator Abaribe is not lone a paper carrying subordinate of ADC successful Abia State but besides doubled arsenic the person of ADC successful Abia, a bold connection which Senator Abaribe has not denied till date.”

APGA said it had accorded Senator Abaribe capable respect by giving him the accidental to interact with the enactment enactment connected immoderate captious issues affecting the enactment “but helium intentionally bluffed the invitation for a gathering extended to him, thereby demeaning the party’s leadership.”

The connection said that contempt “all these alleged unhealthy governmental movements by Senator Abaribe”, which the enactment enactment “sees arsenic compromising actions meant to vilify, ridicule and exposure APGA to nationalist odium,” the enactment had, however, tried to grip the substance with maturity to debar rancour.

It further read: “Extant laws governing governmental enactment rank successful Nigeria forbid a idiosyncratic to beryllium to 2 antithetic governmental parties astatine the aforesaid time, thus, Senator Abaribe cannot beryllium to APGA and ADC astatine the aforesaid time.

“The enactment of Senator Abaribe by openly and hobnobbing with different governmental enactment (ADC) portion holding the mandate of APGA arsenic a Senator amounts to gross usurpation of APGA Constitution.

“In presumption of these, Senator En...