By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI—THE 2011 APC governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi state and chieftain of the party in Ebonyi state, Senator Julius Ucha, yesterday accused the National Working Committee, NWC of the party of introducing illegality in the electoral process of the last ward congress conducted in the state.

Addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, Senator Ucha who described the exercise as a civilian coup orchestrated by the NWC to diminish the fortunes of the party in the South East of the country wondered why NWC members whose tenure would expire in June were allowed to conduct or constitute the Ward Congress Committee for APC states in the country.

He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the current anomalies and illegality plaguing the party in the state as the present NWC members had captured the party as their personal enterprise by disenfranchising supporters of APC in the state.

“This is unfair. I am using this opportunity to call on President Buhari to intervene to save the party from this onslaught by the NWC members who have captured the party as a personal enterprise, to give our teeming supporters in the party hope that democracy is still an institution that we will have confidence in,” he said.