A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has appealed to the Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, not to reward \u2018political bandits\u2019 led by Chief Ugo Agbala in the ongoing composition of Ward and Local Government Area executives in the state.<\/p>\n
He said his appeal was prompted by reports circulating that two of the four slots allocated to the APC in the proposed nine-member Ward and LGA Executive structure may be ceded to Agbala.<\/p>\n
He queried the basis for such a gesture, asking on what \u201cvalid ground or good conscience\u201d Mbah would reward someone he described as \u201ca serial renegade<\/em>,\u201d who, according to him, \u201cled a political coup that contributed to the APC securing only 4,722 votes in the 2023 presidential election in Enugu State.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Okechukwu recalled that the APC had garnered over 56,000 votes in the 2019 presidential election and had hoped to build on that performance in 2023 following extensive membership mobilisation.<\/p>\n He said those efforts were derailed after Agbala was imposed on the party, adding that the rest is history.<\/p>\n Okechukwu warned that it would be dangerous to \u201creward\u201d Agbala, alleging that his \u201chostile leadership style\u201d drove many party members away and contributed to what he described as the lowest presidential vote tally in the country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has appealed to the Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, not to reward \u2018political bandits\u2019 led by Chief Ugo Agbala in the ongoing composition of Ward and Local Government Area executives in the state. He said his appeal was prompted by reports circulating that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2399,1418],"class_list":["post-237795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-osita-okechukwu","tag-peter-mbah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Osita-Okechukwu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}