A member of the APC Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief JOJ Okoloagu has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider Enugu North Senatorial Zone in appointive positions.
Okoloagu, a retired Brig. General, demanded that the zone should be treated fairly like other zones not just in Enugu State but across the country.
He stated this at a one-day meeting of stakeholders from the zone on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) at his residence in Ogbede, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, Okoloagu lamented the dwindling fortunes of the party in the state, attributing it to internal crisis that had engulfed the party in recent time.
Okoloagu said they have evaluated, tinkered with and ruminated on what concerned the party with regards to perennial crisis being engineered deliberately by the purported state party Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah of whom the court had suspended through an injunction.
He, however, said that the injunction had not been vacated but because of the normal impunity that pervaded the land he had continued to parade himself as the party chairman.
The APC chieftain accused the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Uche Nnaji and the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma for backing Agballah, alleging that the Imo Governor had spoiled the party in the state.
“Gov. Uzodimma should concentrate on Imo State and leave Enugu State alone because we must trace where the problems are coming from and from there we will solve our problems” he added.
Okoloagu also noted that his involvement in politics was not to make money but to serve his people, recalling how he rejected N50m and Board chairmanship from late Senator Ayogu Eze to withdraw his legal suit at the election tribunal.
He said: “I rejected that money and I am still in APC. Senator Eze of the blessed memory went to the Senate two times and back, the rest is history.”
Okoloagu applauded Enugu State Gov. Dr Peter Mbah for the numerous developmental projects he is doing in the state.
Speaking in the same vain, Mr Eugene Odo, former Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, said they condemned in its entirety the lopsided appointments being made which presently skewed the Enugu North zone far below and below what have been gotten.
He said that these were people who were very submissive and loyal to the party, they might not have the contact but they believed in protecting the system more by themselves, saying that such advantage cannot be taken for granted.
Odo commended Gov. Peter Mbah for his giant strides especially in Enugu North Senatorial Zone.
“For us, we believe he exceeded our expectations and we pray and urge him not to relent in what he is doing to the people of Enugu North Senatorial Zone.
“We have seen such good governance in Enugu State in terms of infrastructures and our people have benefited in one way or the other, a lot of people are undertaking contracts.
“There is dualisation of Nike-Ugwogo-Opi-Nsukka Road.
“We are relatively an advantage of the school system being constructed in all the 260 wards in the state and type 2 hospital across all the words.
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