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The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, has reaffirmed the governorship candidacy of Uche Ogah, for the 2023 general election in the state.
Ogah was the immediate past Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development before his resignation from the federal cabinet to contest the office of the Governor of Abia State in the 2023 general election.
He was declared winner of the recently-concluded direct gubernatorial primary elections conducted on May 26, 2022, by the party leadership across the 184 electoral wards of the seventeen local government areas of the state.
The Eastern Updates had earlier reported that the ex-minister had scored 141,952 votes to beat his closest rival, Paul Ikonne who scored 27,054.
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The latest reaffirmation of Ogah’s governorship candidacy came on the heels of a recent parley by some factional APC leaders and members at the country home of ex-member of the House of Representatives, Hon Emeka Atuma, in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia state.
It would be recalled that the party members, had during the parley, pledged allegiances and unalloyed support to the governorship bid of the current Pro-chancellor and the Chairman Board Council of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), and leader of a faction of Abia APC, Chief Ikechi Emenike, and resolved to close ranks and work collectively and harmoniously towards delivering landslide victory for the All Progressive Congress in the 2023 general election in all stratas of political leadership in the state.
Prominents among party leaders that attended peace accord/unification parley at Ikwuano residence of Emeka Atuma, were the factional Abia APC gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Ikechi Emenike, immediate past state APC Chairman, Hon Donatus Nwankpa, the current representative of Bende federal constituency in green chamber of the Nigeria National Assembly, Hon Benjamin Kalu, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejiocha representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal constituency at the House of Representatives.
Others were all card-carrying members of the APC in Abia State House of Assembly, political aspirants, pro-groups, and the teeming supporters across the state and its environs.
