By: Miracle Oluebube
Members of All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, in Nnewi North, have rejected the ongoing arrangement to foist Hon. Okey Offor as the consensus candidate for Nnewi North Local Government Chairmanship.
Our correspondent gathered that the news filtering around that Hon. Okey Offor has been anointed by a key stakeholder in Nnewi to fly the party flag is being resisted by members of the party.
Speaking to our correspondent, a member of the party who pleaded anonymity said that Hon. Okey Offor is a member of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and is yet to leave the party.
According to him, Okey Offor publicly tore his APGA membership card and coordinated People’s Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in Nnewi North in 2023, noting that till date, he is yet to officially rejoin APGA.
He stated that Okey Offor has no electoral value and public acceptability as he has lost two previous election which he has contested in the party, including the Nzuko-Ora Nnewi Presidency he lost to the Late Chief Ugochukwu Udemezue.
An executive member of the party in the local government who also pleaded for anonymity said that Okey Offor is not known to the party, he added that members of the party in Nnewi North will go at any length to resist the plan to give him ticket of the party.
For him, he believes that if there won’t be primary election among all the aspirants in the party in Nnewi North, someone that will be acceptable to party members should be chosen and not an intruder like Hon. Okey Offor.
They also warned other aspirants who are purportedly endorsing/foisting non-members of the party to desist from such, as it has previously prevented the party from winning elections, noting that the efforts of the new APGA in Nnewi North cannot be derailed.
