By Anayo Okoli

UMUAHIA — THE crisis rocking the Abia State chapter of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, deepened, yesterday, as an Abia State High Court sitting at Igbere, ordered Chief Victor Umeh to stop parading himself as the National Chairman of APGA pending the hearing and of the determination of a motion on notice filed by five members of the party.

Victor Umeh

Justice U. Ononogbo who gave the order also directed that the order be served at APGA headquarters in Abuja by pasting the court processes at the party headquarters.

He also ordered that the same court processes be served on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters, Abuja and adjourned the matter to December 18, 2014 for hearing of the Motion on Notice.

As if that is not enough, Nnanna Ukaegbu led faction, yesterday announced Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba, as the governorship candidate of the party in 2015 general elections.

Ukaegbu said Ufomba emerged from the primaries conducted by the party on Monday in Umuahia.

The former Managing Director of Diamond Bank, Dr, Alex Otti was on Monday also declared as the winner of the party’s primaries to flag the APGA flag in the 2015 election by another faction of the party.

Ukaegbu who claimed Otti was not a member of the party, announced that Ufomba scored a total of 515 votes to defeat Dr. Otti who he said, scored 47 votes and that there were 50 invalid votes. He said that another aspirant, Chief Chikwe Udensi, withdrew from the race a week ago.

Ukaegbu said no congress was held by Dr. Otti’s faction of the party, alleging that what happened was “an attempt to bring fraud into APGA system”, which he said was resisted.

According to him, Chief Victor Umeh, was under a court order not to conduct any primaries for the party.