By Chris Ochayi

ABUJA—There are strong indications, weekend, in Abuja, that the six suspended National Officers of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, might be expelled from the party, following their failure to appear before the seven-man disciplinary committee, set up by the party’s national leadership to investigate them.

Until their suspension over allegations of anti-party activities and unlawful breaking into the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, they were members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.

The NWC, led by the National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, had on June 21, announced the indefinite suspension of the six officers of the party over alleged anti-party activities.

Those suspended were Deputy National Chairman, North, Alhaji Sadeeq Massalla; National Vice Chairman, South-East, Mr. Morgan Anyalechi; Deputy National Organising Secretary, Sunday Obasohan; Deputy National Legal Adviser, Bala Bako; National Youth Leader, Mr. Ferguson Okpara and National Women Leader, Mrs. Ella Ezeanya.

The NWC subsequently set up a seven-man disciplinary committee headed by Alhaji Tayo Sowumi, National Vice Chairman, South-West, to probe the suspended officers.

The committee had invited the affected party members to appear before it over the allegations. But the committee waited fruitlessly at the party’s national secretariat as the party officers failed to turn up.

Addressing journalists in Abuja after waiting for several hours, Sowumi said: “After waiting for them for this long, we are left with no alternative than to write our report and forward same to the party’s National Executive Committee.”