…Don’t act on hearsay – Aide
By Steve Oko
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abia State Chapter, has given Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe representing Abia South, 24 hours to clear air over his alleged fraternity with the coalition African Democratic Congress, ADC, or face sanctions.
APGA in an announcement after its caucus assembly in Umuahia on Tuesday night time, advised the previous Senate Minority Chief that no one would belong to 2 political events on the similar time, and demanded him to declare his stand.
APGA accused Senator Abaribe of abandoning the get together and treating its management with disdain after utilizing the get together’s platform to safe a fifth time period on the pink chamber.
The assertion signed by the get together’s Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, stated that Senator Abaribe held conferences on August 18, and September 23 respectively at his occasion centre in Aba the place he allegedly promoted ADC as an alternative of APGA, and challenged him to personally verify or deny his rumoured defection to ADC.
However in a swift response, Abaribe’s media aide, Uchenna Awom, stated the get together knew find out how to entry the Senator as its chief within the state, and may cease dwelling on rumours.
He stated it was unfair for the get together to situation ultimatum to the Senator primarily based on unverified hearsay with out listening to from him, and suggested them to cease appearing “on subterfuge”.
Awom stated:”Senator Abaribe is alive. As APGA chief in Abia, the get together has all of the channels to entry him. He doesn’t have any points with them. They need to write him and personally hear from him.”
Requested if Abaribe had actually defected to ADC, the aide stated: “As an skilled polititican, he is aware of find out how to go about it.”
He added: “Has he communicated to them that he has left APGA? They don’t simply sit down and do arm-twisting to get out phrases from his mouth.”
The assertion learn partially: “The management of APGA in Abia State will not be oblivious of the rumours making the rounds that Senator Enyinnaya Abiriba, representing Abia South on the platform of APGA has joined the African Democratic Social gathering (ADC). This hearsay adopted the city corridor assembly he known as on 18/8/25 on the NOBIK occasion middle, Aba the place he addressed some members of his constituency about what he known as ‘a coalition’ beneath the ADC.
“It is usually on report that the assembly of 18/8/25 metamorphosed into one other assembly held on the similar occasion middle on 22/8/25, anchored by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe whereby he overtly and overtly tilted in direction of selling ADC on the detriment of APGA on whose mandate he’s occupying the Senate place.
“In affirmation of the apparent physique language of Senator Abaribe, which is anti APGA, the Abia State Secretary of the ADC, overtly and boldly said in a radio programme that Senator Abaribe will not be solely a card carrying member of ADC in Abia State but additionally doubled because the chief of ADC in Abia, a daring assertion which Senator Abaribe has not denied until date.”
APGA stated it had accorded Senator Abaribe sufficient respect by giving him the chance to work together with the get together management on some important points affecting the get together “however he deliberately bluffed the invitation for a gathering prolonged to him, thereby demeaning the get together’s management.”
The assertion stated that regardless of “all these alleged unhealthy political actions by Senator Abaribe”, which the get together management “sees as compromising actions meant to vilify, ridicule and expose APGA to public odium,” the get together had, nonetheless, tried to deal with the matter with maturity to keep away from rancour.
It additional learn: “Extant legal guidelines governing political get together membership in Nigeria forbid an individual to belong to 2 totally different political events on the similar time, thus, Senator Abaribe can not belong to APGA and ADC on the similar time.
“The motion of Senator Abaribe by overtly and hobnobbing with one other political get together (ADC) whereas holding the mandate of APGA as a Senator quantities to gross violation of APGA Structure.
“In view of those, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is hereby given 24 hours from the date and time of releasing this press assertion to personally and publicly refute and, or deny all of the speculations making the rounds on his membership of the African Democratic Social gathering (ADC).”
APGA demanded Senator Abaribe’s response in each print and digital media platforms, failure of which the get together threatened a immediate disciplinary actions in opposition to him in keeping with the get together’s APGA structure.
“This press assertion shall function ample discover to Senator Abaribe concerning the choice reached by the get together”, it concluded.
Recall that Senator Abaribe went to the Senate in 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, a platform he had used to win re-election in 2011, 2015, and 2019 respectively instances however defected to APGA in 2023 to safe a fourth time period.
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