Uche Nwosu speaks on APC CRISIS & 2023 PRESIDENCY

Uche Nwosu Charges APC to take decisions that will strengthen the party and unite aggrieved stakeholders.

• He Believes that adherence to equity and justice would earn the party the presidency in 2023.
• Says his membership of the party is not in contest.

A former governorship candidate in Imo state and Chieftain of the the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed concern over the crises that are still rocking the party.

Speaking over the weekend during an exclusive interview with newsmen in Abuja, Chief Nwosu who was affirmed by the Supreme Court to be the authentic APC 2019 governorship candidate in Imo state, frowned at the delay in resolving the crises bedeviling the party both at the national and in various states.

According to him, “the Caretaker Committee has stayed longer than expected but the President, Muhammadu Buhari, our leader in his wisdom knows why he kept them for this long to handle some issues in the party.

But I am not happy that up till now they have not been able to handle the crisis in most of the states like Rivers, Imo, Kwara, Ogun, Zamfara and so many other states. So, that was the most important assignment given to them by the President. The President categorically said that the Caretaker Committee should come up and handle the crisis in the states.

Unfortunately the Caretaker Committee has not been able to do this, the crises are still there. I am happy that after the meeting of the governors of APC, they said that the Caretaker Committee should go ahead and conduct convention immediately so that we can have people who are part executives whose job is entirely to handle these issues.

Suggesting a way forward in resolving the party crisis in Imo, the APC Chieftain maintained that the party’s Caretaker Committee should have called a meeting comprising of the Governor of the state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, the former Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha and Senator Ifeanyi Ararume in which they would sit together as brothers to have a round-table discussion and resolve whatever issue that is tearing the party apart in the state.

“The leadership is shying away from doing their jobs as the leader of the party. They have not even asked a proper question of what is the problem here; they have not done that and they are getting to a year and six months that they were inaugurated.

I am not sure that the leadership of the party wants to do that and for me we should wait for the National Working Committee (NWC) that would come in. This current leadership, I am not sure they want to resolve the problems in Imo State and some other states with problems,” he opined.

While acknowledging it as a normal phenomenon for political parties to be headlock in crises as elections approach, he warned that prompt resolution of conflicts is very pivotal to winning the election and believes that before the Anambra election in November, the party leadership would have reconciled aggrieved members of the party in the state.

On re-validation of his APC membership, the renowned philanthropist remarked that, “membership registration and re-validation never stops; it is not something you give a deadline for, that after so and so time, it would stop. No, it is a continuous process. So, when the people came to Owerri, I was not contacted and they did not call the stakeholders so we felt that they didn’t want us to be part of it.

However, I am still a member of the party. I am a registered member of the party. What I need to do as I said earlier is re-validation and this does not mean you are not a member of the party. The only people that can register are those coming in newly to the party but old members would just have to re-validate their membership, which can be done anytime.

Speaking on 2023 presidency, the APC stakeholder noted that while the party is yet to zone its presidential ticket to any geopolitical area, he hopes that the party takes a good decision that would not break it in the coming electioneering year.

He advised the party to allow equity and justice to prevail in 2023 for that in itself would give the party an edge in retaining the presidency in 2023.

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Emeka Macdonald

thTV Admin, Owerri