Following the appointment of Dr Ben Nwoye as Chief of Staff to the APC’s Deputy National Chairman, Alhaji Ali Dalori, a new round of crises has erupted in the Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
As the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has stated, the nomination was a huge error.
Nnaji addressed the media through his Special Assistant on Media, Engr Jekwu Nnaji, in apparent reaction to a group that had asked him to concentrate on his duties as minister.
Nnaji and Nwoye are both from Enugu State, where Nwoye served as APC Chairman for two times.
Nnaji, on the other hand, said that Nwoye backed Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, now Governor Peter Mbah, during the 2023 general elections, and that the appointment would be disastrous for the party.
He compared the move to “hiring an undertaker to bury APC in Enugu State.” This arrangement appears to be a planned act by the APC Deputy National Chairman, North, because Ben Nwoye has never hidden his anti-party activities and determination to destroy the APC in Enugu State in particular, and Nigeria in general.
“His anti-party activities were publicised, as he worked assiduously to sabotage and thwart the programs and affairs of APC in Enugu State during the last general elections.
“He could be seen and heard at different fora castigating and denigrating APC candidates while campaigning for PDP.
“Ben Nwoye cannot work at the coal corporation and go to the railway for his salary. So, his appointment as Chief of Staff to the APC Deputy National Chairman North is not acceptable to APC faithful in Enugu State.”
“It is pertinent to note that the APC leader in Enugu State is the Honourable Minister of Innovation Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji.
“So, in line with international best practices and due process, it is expected that the Deputy National Chairman North would run such a decision through him.
“I am not saying that the Deputy Chairman has no right to appoint any person of his choice from any part of the country as aide. He has the right, and therefore responsible for the consequences of the decision. This is the reason I opened my submission with the postulation that the decision to hire Ben Nwoye is a deliberate act, aimed at destroying APC.
“The APC leader in Enugu State, Chief Uche Nnaji has every right as a concerned party man to raise objections to the appointment.
“Rabble rousers and misguided supporters of Ben Nwoye are hailing the appointment as deserved. Is it a deserving appointment to compensate a mole who openly campaigned for PDP as could be seen in the attached video?” He queried.
Meanwhile, both Nnaji and the APC chairman in Enugu State, Barr Ugochukwu Agballa co-signed a protest letter written to Dalori, wherein they expressed their displeasure over the appointment given to Nwoye.