2023: Enugu APC gov candidate ‘rejects’ Tinubu’s marketing campaign funds

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Uchenna Nnaji, has rejected the marketing campaign funds of the social gathering’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

Mr Nnaji defined that the choice adopted the invention that the disaster rocking the social gathering was brought on by the marketing campaign funds despatched by Mr Tinubu for the social gathering within the state.

The governorship candidate, who spoke at an emergency stakeholders assembly held on the South-east zonal workplace of the social gathering on Sunday in Enugu, stated the marketing campaign funds from Mr Tinubu ought to, as a substitute, be withheld till after the election, if it could be a supply of ‘destabilisation’ for the social gathering within the state.

“The present disaster in Enugu APC is all about Tinubu’s Marketing campaign cash. The so-called stakeholders are combating to be in cost and preside over the disbursement of Tinubu’s cash,” he stated.

“By the particular grace of God, we’ll use Enugu APC assets to fund the election in 2023 and after the election, the social gathering will refund us. It’s Tinubu’s cash that’s inflicting the disaster in Enugu APC,” Mr Nnaji said.

He stated he would meet with the nationwide chairman of the social gathering and Mr Tinubu to tell them of the choice.

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Mr Nnaji requested these he described as “Abuja stakeholders” to come back house and be a part of him in grassroots mobilisation of assist for the APC in Enugu in order that the social gathering would win the forthcoming elections within the state.

He stated he and the social gathering chairman within the state, Ugochukwu Agballah, have travelled throughout 184 wards and 204 communities of the 17 native authorities areas within the state forward of the 2023 normal elections.

“It’s unprecedented within the historical past of the social gathering within the state and reveals how ready we’re to not solely contest the election but in addition win,” he stated.

The APC within the state has been enmeshed in a management disaster currently with some social gathering members calling for the sack of a few of its leaders within the state.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that on 30 August, some social gathering officers within the state, had requested the Nationwide Working Committee and management of the APC to take away Mr Agballah, whom they accused of ‘appropriating the social gathering within the state as a private possession alongside different executives.’

However Mr Nnaji stated the transfer was ill-conceived, noting that Mr Agballah was the chairman who revived the social gathering within the state.

He stated, “Our leaders who need Agballah eliminated weren’t even paying for his or her ward workplaces throughout communities. Now, now we have come to make the system work once more they usually need to take away us.

“Our executives are doing properly and deserve each assist they want. No different social gathering can embark on the sort of tour now we have embarked upon.”