Dare Babalola
The leadership of the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been dissolved.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Durosinmi Meseko, made this known on Friday in a statement posted on the party’s official Facebook page.
Meseko said the decision was reached by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party at its 179th meeting which was held at its national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
The meeting was presided over by the APC National Chairperson, Nentawe Yilwatda, who constituted a seven-member caretaker committee to oversee the affairs of the party in the state pending the election of substantive leadership.
Meseko added that the NWC appointed Ben Nwoye, a former chairperson of the APC in Enugu State, as caretaker chairperson, while a former speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, emerged as secretary.
Other members of the committee are Fidelia Njoeze, Peter Chime, Oby Ajih, Chiedozie Nwafor and Emma Ekeh.
The deputy national publicity secretary said the committee would be inaugurated at 10:00 a.m. today, Friday, 10 October at the APC’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
The official said the dissolution of the APC’s leadership in Enugu State was intended to reposition the party in the state for “greater unity and effectiveness.”
Before the dissolution, Ugochukwu Agballah was the state’s chairperson of the APC.
Uche Nnaji, who recently resigned as the minister of innovation, Science, and technology, was the leader of the party in the state.
