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Fresh Concerns As APC Recruit Gbazuagu Against Nwobodo

By Leo Sobechi
06 February 2016   |   11:35 pm
THE perceived wrangling within the Enugu State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has taken a new dimension, as members opposed to the entry of former governor of old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, has succeeded in enlisting the support of Chief Gbazuagu Nweke Gbazuagu.
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THE perceived wrangling within the Enugu State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has taken a new dimension, as members opposed to the entry of former governor of old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, has succeeded in enlisting the support of Chief Gbazuagu Nweke Gbazuagu.

Gbazuagu, a former governorship candidate of All Peoples Party (APP), withdrew from active politics, shortly after losing the 1999 governorship election in the state to Senator Chimaroke Nnamani in protest over the perceived manipulation and use of strongarm tactics in party politics.

In 2003 he resisted pressures to contest the governorship against Nnamani, stressing that the political climate had become so militarised and deficient in ideological content.”

However, following the recent entry into APC by Nwobodo, Gbazuagu’s former loyalists in APP, including Chief Anike Nwoga, mounted fresh pressures on him to join the party, so, as to whittle down the influence of the former chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who they claim contributed to his (Gbazuagu’s) surprise loss in 1999.

“We have succeeded in bringing back Chief GNG into politics; we assured him that things have changed and that he should come and help us bring change in Enugu politics,” a source confided in The Guardian, saying that the party plans to receive him into the APC fold at his Akpugoeze ward today.

APC state chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye, told The Guardian that contrary to the designs of some party faithful in the state, he remains of the firm belief that APC needs the membership of experienced politicians to strengthen its structure and make it able to win elections.
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