BY ENYIM ENYIM

ONITSHA —The national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Maxi Okwu, who two weeks ago bounced back as chairman, courtesy of a Federal High Court, Abuja, judgement, yesterday, appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and chairman, Board of Trustees of the party, to quickly resolve the recent leadership crisis in the party.

Okwu at a stakeholders’ meeting in his country home, Nkpokolo, Achi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, said that he was prepared for dialogue and reconciliation between him and the former national Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh for the party to move forward.

“I appeal to Governor Obi, who Chief Victor Umeh made the chairman of the Board of Trustees of our great party to reconcile aggrieved members for the party to move forward. He (Obi] brought me in as the national chairman and I am still loyal to him. I pray he does the right thing.

He called on the governor to as a matter of urgency and in the interest of the party, advise Umeh to discontinue his legal battle at the Appeal Court, “because there is nothing to say in his suit, asking for a stay of action on the judgement of the Federal High Court that declared me the authentic chairman.

“Umeh should take a terminal leave to allow APGA grow to greater height, especially this period we are preparing on how to make sure that President Goodluck Jonathan wins the 2015 presidential election. He has been parading himself as the national chairman without any new idea injected into the party.”

He said that his administration would re-brand APGA by making sure that members were carried along in the scheme of things as opposed to Umeh administration, assuring that APGA would capture Enugu and other states in subsequent elections.