UMUAHIA – The Abia State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Chijioke Chukwu, has dismissed reports of an alliance between the APC and the Labour Party, LP, or Governor Alex Otti ahead of the 2027 elections.
Chukwu stated this on Sunday during a stakeholders meeting of the party held at the APC Secretariat in Umuahia.
He said as state chairman, he has consulted the highest stakeholders in the state and can confirm that no such agreement exists.
“If there is anybody that should know, I should be the one. I am the state chairman, and I have consulted the highest stakeholders in the state, and I want to tell you that there is no such unholy alliance, and there will never be,” he said.
The chairman was reacting to rumours that the party’s governorship candidate, Eric Opia, and other members had entered into an “unholy alliance” with the ruling LP in the state.
Chukwu said the APC cannot go into alliance with a party that is “meting out hardship on Abians,” accusing the Otti administration of lack of accountability and over-inflated contracts.
“A party that has claimed billions of naira in the name of school renovation. A party that is carrying out its activities as though we are in a military regime, where a lecturer will be suspended for airing his views. Are we in tyranny, are we in military regime? But we have a tyrant in Abia as the head of government,” Chukwu said.
“If the party must go into alliance, it is not going to be with such a tyrant. A party in a state that has not taken the issue of accountability seriously… contracts have been over inflated.”
He urged party members to go into the 2027 elections as one strong body and warned candidates against using the party’s ticket to negotiate with other parties.
“We need to go into the election as one strong body. If you think you have taken the ticket of this party for House of Assembly, and you are going to use it to negotiate, we are watching you,” he said.
“We will negotiate in a direction of good government, a government that will be accountable to the people, a government that will pay pensions, a government that will give Abians acceptable minimum wage.”
Chukwu expressed confidence that the APC would win all elections in 2027, stressing that members can only be recognized and benefit within the APC.
“I cannot sign an agreement where I as the state chairman will not be a beneficiary. I can only be a beneficiary when I have a governor that is APC, when I have a senator that is APC, when I have a House of Rep that is APC, when I have House of Assembly member that is APC, likewise you,” he said.
