Like other local governments, Umuahia North chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has collapsed into the APC, saying that the party has become almost nonexistent in the state with the exit of Dr. Alex Otti.
Led by their LGA Chairman, Mr. Leonard Ogbanna and his executive members , members of the party gathered at the former APGA State secretariat at School Road by Ikot Ekpene Umuahia where they unanimously declared for the APC amid joy and celebration.
To observe Covid-19 protocols, other members of the party in the LGA were advised against coming to the headquarters, but directed to also hold their defection activities in their various wards where they were expected to be received by APC chairmen in those wards.
The former APGA members who had earlier registered with the APC in their different wards explained that since the exit of a finacial expert and the former APGA governorship candidate, Dr. Alex Otti, the party literally went into a coma, with zero activities at all levels.
It would be recalled that a financial expert and former governorship candidate of APGA, Dr. Alex Otti had a few months ago officially declared for the All Progressives Congress (APC) at his Ward, Ehi na Uguru , Nvosi Isialangwa South LGA of the state, after which he was received by the state leadership of the APC led by the State Chairman, Hon. Donatus Nwamkpa and other members of the state executive.
Following Otti’s defection, many respected leaders of the party and thousands of supporters from different local governments quickly abandoned APGA for the APC, a development that has massively affected the fortunes of APGA at all levels.
The party leaders were in a unanimous agreement that joining Dr. Otti and other progressives in APC would give them a veritable platform to continue the robust struggle for the actualization of good governance in Abia.
