By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia- Two members of the National Working Committee of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, have  warned those they described as “disgruntled members planning to destabilize the party”, that APGA was not for sale.

The leaders, Mr. Morgan Anyalechi, the National Vice Chairman, South East and  Chief Dickson Ohaeri, and the party’s Deputy National Secretary, alleged that some former members of the party were being sponsored by unnamed politicians to destabilize the party by attacking and calling for the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh.

The two party leaders were reacting to a call by a group in Abia State, who last week called for Umeh’s removal as National Chairman of APGA, for alleged several misdemeanors.

The group,  under the umbrella of “stakeholders of the party”, had in a communiqué after a meeting said to have been held in Aba, moved a vote of no confidence on Umeh and called for his removal from office. The communiqué was signed by Charles Elodi, and Christian Umeugo, and others.

But in their reaction, Anyalechi and Ohaeri denounced the signatories to the communiqué, dismissing them as “disgruntled former members of the party” in Abia State.

allegedly hired to destabilize the party under Chief Victor Umeh. They said that they were suspended from the party for anti-party activities.

The two leaders, who are from Abia state, said that APGA has done well under Umeh. However, they called on genuine members of the party who desire any reforms in the party to follow laid down rules in line with the party’s constitution.

The two national leaders also warned the group to desist from using the names of the party’s governors of Anambra and Imo state in their plan to destabilize the party.  They also called on the members and supporters of the party to ignore the activities of the group whom they accused of “hired to cause trouble in the party by politicians who are not happy with the gains the party is making”.