Why Benue APC chairman, Augustine Agada Was Suspended | READ DETAILS
The Benue State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Augustine Agada, has been suspended.
Agada’s suspension comes after a vote of no confidence was passed on him by his Ehaje Ward 1 in Owukpa, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of the State.
The ward also suspended the duo after the receipt and consideration of a petition by Comrade Dan Onjeh, the party’s 2023 Senatorial Candidate, alleging Agada committed anti-party activities during the last general elections.
Citing relevant provisions of the APC Constitution, the ward leadership listed seven grounds for the suspension of Agada from the party.
They include: Agada’s failure to appear before the Ward Disciplinary Committee to address the allegations against him despite the ward’s invitation to him to do so; the Ward Exco found compelling evidence of Agada working against the party’s interest in the Benue South Senatorial District during the 2023 elections.
These anti-party activities included: campaigning for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Sen. Abba Moro; dampening the morale of APC supporters and encouraging anti-party activities within the ward, and losing his polling unit (Ai-Igado Ehaje 1) in the presidential, senatorial, and House of Representatives elections.
The Ehaje Ward 1 leadership also cited Agada’s alleged withholding of the funds from the APC at the national level provided to the ward for logistics and election day activities.
Agada was also accused of altering the list of APC election agents the party’s Benue South senatorial candidate submitted with the intent of subverting the party at the poll.
The Ehaje Ward 1 leadership further stated that it suspended Agada, “based on the strength and irrefutable facts tendered in the petition with CTC of bank statements tendered and oral evidence given by party members in the ward…”
After a thorough consideration of the allegations against Agada and the evidence proffered to back these charges, the Ward Disciplinary Committee drew its conclusion and submitted its findings and report to the APC Ehaje Ward 1 Expanded Exco.
The expanded Exco further deliberated on the findings and resolved to: (1) pass a vote of no confidence on Agada based on Article 17 sub-sections V and Vi of the party constitution; (2) suspend Agada from the party with immediate effect, pursuant to Article 17 sub-sections V and Vi; (3) urge all relevant party organs to take note of the Ward Exco’s decision and uphold the party constitution, and (4) advised Mr. Agada to cease parading himself as a member of the party or purport to hold the position of Benue State Party Chairman.
