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APC Rally: Buhari, Osinbajo, Oyegun and others set to storm Abia state

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July 3, 2022

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President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Odigie Oyegun and other bigwigs of the All Progressive Congress, APC, will storm Abia State tomorrow for the party’s rally.

APC Publicity Secretary in the state, Ben Godson, disclosed this in a press conference at the party’s secretariat in Umuahia.

Also on the list of APC chieftains to visit Abia, outside members of the National Executive Council (NEC) are, among others, the chairman of Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, former Senate president, Senator Ken Nnamani, former governor of Old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, serving ministers from the South East, immediate past governors of Enugu State, Chief Sullivan Chime and that of Ebonyi State, Chief Martins Elechi.

Godson described the president’s visit as a landmark which would further boost the party’s preparation towards unseating the PDP-led administration in the+ state in 2019.

He added that erstwhile members of other political parties, including former governor of the state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, governorship aspirant of PDP in 2015, Dr. Sampson Uche Ogah, former managing director of defunct Hallmark Bank, Chief Marc Wabara, Chief Emeka Wogu, former minister of Labour and Productivity; senator Bob Nwanunu, General Ogbonnaya Okoro (retd), DIG Azubuko Udah (retd); Chinenye Ike, former House of Representatives member and some members of Abia State House of Assembly, among others, who recently joined APC, would be formally received by the president and party leaders.

Meanwhile, Indications that the president might be in Abia State tomorrow emerged last Saturday when a presidential team, led by an army Major, who was believed to be on a surveillance mission, was sighted at the NEYA, Igbere country home of former governor, Orji Kalu.

It was gathered that the team came looking for a suitable helipad where the president’s helicopter would possibly land in the state capital or its environs.