The viral comment of All Progressive Congress Board of Trustee member, Chief BB Apugo has attracted response from the leadership of APC in Abia State.
In a press release made available to AFNews and signed by APC publicity secretary in Abia State, Comrade Benedict Godson, the statement of Apugo was described as false and misleading.
Remember, AFNews had earlier published an interview granted to Sun Newspaper by Chief BB Apugo. In the interview, the APC board of trustee member alleged that all the seven governorship aspirants of the party in 2019 were all sponsored by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.
He also alleged that current Minister of state for Mines and steel development, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah was not a serious candidate in 2019.
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Below is the full press release of the APC in Abia State:
APC disowns Apugo over comment against 2019 seven governorship aspirants
In a democracy, everyone is free to hold and express his opinion, but when such opinion is not consistent with the truth, it must be made to take its perfect position as a fallacy.
Therefore, Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) wishes to state that the statement credited one of our leaders, Prince Benjamin Apugo by Daily Sun publication on 27/02/2020 where he was quoted to have said that Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu bought the forms for all our seven aspirants in the 2019 election is a huge fallacy.
With all due respect to Prince Apugo, he got his allegation wrong and there is no element of truth in that particular unfortunate statement that was credited to him. In fact his statement is a gargantuan lie and an act of sabotage to the party.
We as a party cannot watch one man no matter his position or capacity, stand and destroy the image of seven responsible men who in their different capacities represent a lot for their people, the party, Abians and even in Nigeria as a nation.
Apugo making statement like “it was a clear game that Ikpeazu played with the seven APC governorship aspirants” is an attempt to assassinate the images of some of those great men who came together to contest in our party’s primary.
Abia APC as it stands cannot afford to allow statements like the one credited to Prince Apugo to go without setting the records straight. Our society is a society that respect elders. We respect elders because we assume that every words of their mouth ought to be the truth.
When an elder of Apugo’s capacity goes about making reckless and unguided statements like this one now, we have no option than to call him to order to avoid using his position as an elder to destroy other persons who also wish to be elder.
We therefore which to plead with all our seven governorship aspirants to please forgive Prince Apugo on this his fallacious statement, as the party is never and can never be in agreement with such a destructive and unguided statement that’s capable of destroying our party.
The seven gentlemen that bought the form of our great party all had intentions of contributing to the growth and development Abia State. It’s wrong and absolutely unacceptable for anyone to cast aspersions on them for simply doing all they can to save Abia State.
Our stand is no. Prince BB Apugo, you got this one terribly wrong and we don’t agree with you because this particular statement is a monumental lie and we reject it in its entirety.
Abia State APC Publicity
Secretary
Comrade Benedict Godson
29/02/2020
