A chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Mr Afam Enemokwu, has accused the leadership of the party of abandoning its presidential candidate, Prof Peter Umeadi, and other candidates, during general election.
Enemokwu, who is the National Director of Operations, Presidential Campaign Council of the party, alleged that the party leadership, led by Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, failed to do the needful to ensure the victory of the party’s candidates.
He said the party’s leadership were to blame for its abysmal outing at the polls. He accused the Soludo-led leadership of failure to fund the party.
He said, “Our presidential candidate is more qualified to win the election, because he has all it takes to be president of Nigeria, but we did not do what we were supposed to do before now due to lack of funds, which is the only problem we had in the presidential election.
“No doubt, Umeadi actually showed in his personal capacity that he could do it, but the party and the governor, who was elected on APGA platform, has not shown him any support; in fact, the party leadership abandoned him.
“Well since the inauguration of the APGA Presidential Campaign Council, which cuts across all levels of the party, we were not invited for a meeting, we were not given direction, there is no funding, so the APGA faithful are disappointed and frustrated that nothing, as it used to be, has come from the people up there.
“From day one, particularly the governor, sidelined me and the presidential candidate. The governor is not interested, he has not even received me; I went to see him, my name was listed in the manifest, he knew I was coming, his Deputy Chief of Staff even called me and said my name was on the manifest. I went and stayed for three hours but the governor refused to see me.”