APGA: In Desperate Defence Of Our Common Heritage

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As our great party APGA gets set for another primaries, with the usual suspects currently posturing as kingmakers intent on their normal activity of truncating internal democracy, it is important that we tell ourselves some home truths with a view to avoiding the collosal embarrassment and discontent every true party member experienced in the last election cycle.

For those that have forgotten, the months leading up to our last primaries saw our dear party eminently positioned as a most beautiful bride with aspirants from far and wide angling to covet it’s tickets.

To be clear, APGA had everything going for it and all it needed to do to extend it’s hold on other states like Abia and Imo, was to live up to its promise of a free and fair primaries as enshrined in our constitution but we all saw what happened.

Who can forget in a hurry, the underhand practices and pure evil foisted on many an aspirant as they were fleeced and made to pay through their noses for tickets already set aside for the highest bidders?

From the party Secretariat in Awka to that makeshift unofficial party Secretariat at the Beautiful Gate Hotel Awka, aspirants were put through what has got to be the most unfair and unconscionable act of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man.

To get a copy of the form at our Awka Secretariat, you had to pay an unofficial lump sum at the office of the secretary and even at that, aspirants were merely given a piece of paper with a promise that the document would soon be ready.


Street smart aspirants then learnt that the only way that form could get to their hands, was to quickly dash to the Beautiful Gate Hotel where a well organized cartel led by a current member of the Federal House of Representatives, ensured they were further fleeced out of their last dime.

All this happening whilst the clock continued ticking on the deadline for submission!
To cut the long story short, the last APGA primaries was a complete disgrace and unforgivable affront to internal democracy as stumbling block after stumbling block was placed on the path of unfavored aspirants whilst those who could cough out their last dime were assured tickets.

Which loyal party member can forget in a hurry the diabolical acts of those henchmen sent to disqualify unfavored aspirants?
To rub insult on an already festering injury, primaries did not hold and where they pretended to conduct some, they were marred by obvious irregularities and outright cheating.

There were cases where delegates waited forever for party executives who ended up not turning up, only to announce a winner for primaries that never held.

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This same evil practice was replicated in most LGA’S and states like Imo which ultimately sounded the death knell for our dear party in these states.

We can go on and on reliving that dark and sad chapter in our party’s history but it is important that we speak up at this material time for it is becoming increasingly obvious that the same elements that brought our dear party to disrepute, are at it today, positioning and boasting about delivering a particular aspirant at the expense of internal democracy.

These same characters are now parading a particular aspirant to the detriment of others who have been made to feel like outcasts in a party we all religiously chant, “Onye Ayana Nwanne Ya”!
Party members who have  every right to their aspirations are currently being intimidated with a view to obviously paving the way for them to be blocked from testing their popularity in a free and fair primaries whilst their annointed aspirant who ironically, postures as a man at home with internal democracy, is busy prancing and acting with all the self assuredness of one who knows and understands that the path is being unfairly cleared for him.

As we speak, same persons who claim other aspirants have not informed Gov Willie Obiano of their aspirations, are actively blocking them from having audience with the Governor and one really has to wonder if party members should resign themselves to the fact that our party has become a fiefdom where the voices of party members mean absolutely nothing as long as the “Lords of the Manor” have issued a decree.

Does it mean that loyal party members that have given their blood and sweat to the party do not have a right to aspire to the highest office in the state?

Why would the same persons who ensured our dear party was rubbished and brought to ridicule in the last general elections, be allowed to dictate events in APGA?
Why do these characters feel that party members are perennial fools who must always bow to every imposition and cheating they manage to conjure?

We sincerely feel that the time has come for every true APGA member to speak up because this penchant for always taking us for a ride must stop!

At the rate these characters are going, party members should not be surprised to see a spate of disqualifications by a carefully handpicked committee to pave the way for their anointed aspirant.
We should look out for their normal shenanigans where the delegate list will suddenly experience a drastic metamorphosis to ensure that only those yeomen ready to cast votes for their annointed aspirant would participate in the shambolic primaries.

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The time has come for every true APGA member to rise up and fight for the soul of our party which if truth be told, is in the stranglehold of a few who believe members are bereft of commonsense and must swallow every nonsense and underhand dealings they hurl our way.

APGA belongs to all of us and this time around, a man cannot come from nowhere and be installed our flagbearer just because he has the ears of those who see themselves as Lords over the rest of us.

We must insist on a free and fair primaries and encourage any aggrieved person to go to court for the past has shown us that these evil masterminds are adept at castigating aspirants for legally seeking redress when it is obvious to even the blind that they orchestrated the heist with their eyes wide open!

This coming primaries will not be the time for aspirants to be told that the party is supreme when it is obvious that by Supremacy, they mean the decree of these evil connivers!

It is strange that these characters appear not to have learnt from an immediate past that left members highly disilusioned but are even now getting ready to do the unthinkable by foisting their annointed aspirant down the throats of members!

We must warn these leaders not to take party members for granted and realize that the stench of their misadventure still looms large and fresh in the minds of many a party member and the only way our party can be seen as one that truly upholds the tenets of internal democracy, is to not only conduct a free and fair primaries but be seen in all ramifications to do so.

It is indeed laughable and ironic that these conniving characters have not taken a cue from History for if they did, they ought to know that the man they so religiously propel will be their nemesis and that of every true party man for if they foolishly imagine that he would adhere to whatever unholy agreement they’ve reached behind closed doors, they should be ready for the shocker of their lives.

The man they currently propel is first and foremost, a man that cannot by any stretch of the imagination be led by the nose once he mounts that saddle and if you thought the misunderstanding between the incumbent and the previous Governor was shocking, be very prepared for the fastest rift in Anambra State history!

It is equally shocking that they cannot even read in between the lines for how do you explain that even those who only yesterday were lambasting the incumbent over that sham of a primaries have suddenly joined ranks with them to propel same  aspirant?

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They are foolishly projecting him based strictly on self interest while their erstwhile aggrieved enemies/aspirants are equally supporting him because they know that his first victims would be same characters currently acting like deranged godfathers!

Party members are enjoined to close ranks and ensure their worst nightmare does not happen for it is better to have a tested, trusted and competent party member superintending over Agu Awka than an outsider whose only motivation for chanting our slogan is power for power’s sake.

We insist that party members would be the next casualties after he must have dealt with those currently playing the role of godfathers and if you ever seek a clue, check his antecedents and ask yourselves if this man is truly a dyed in the wool APGA member!

We must rise up and save our party from these political buccaneers who have proven not to have the best interests of APGA at heart because individuals that superintended over that sad and shambolic party primaries, where aspirants where cheated to their last dime and our party Constitution shredded without an inch of conscience, cannot be said to have the best interest of APGA at heart but are merely driven by selfish interests which their anointed aspirant will obliterate the minute power enters his hands.

Ndi APGA, the die is cast and if you ever loved our great party, now is the time to stand up wherever you are and ensure that these evil minded godfathers do not foist someone that will come and destroy everything and every system we have been enjoying so far.

Be sure to see their paid media urchins who cannot see beyond the peanuts hurled their way, rise up in defence of this existential threat our party currently faces, but we speak to every member in every community and every LGA to rise up and thwart this evil that is currently looming.

We must retrieve the soul of our party and it behoves on each and everyone of us to defend and block every intrigue, every underhand practice and if need be, once it is obvious that this Evil intends to have it’s nefarious way, be ready to seek legal redress in defence of the only party we call our own!

Thank you!

Signed.

Izuchukwu Anoliefo
Vice Chairman
APGA RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT

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