Senator Annie Okonkwo, has finally resigned from APC

The immediate past interim Deputy National
Chairman (South) of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Senator Annie Okonkwo, has
finally resigned his membership of the party,
alleging the party has no good intentions for the
South-east people.
Okonkwo, who is also the President of C21, an
Igbo socio-political group, in a statement he
personally signed yesterday, said he resigned his
membership because of the party’s scruffy
promises, lack of internal party democracy and
clannish and sectional disposition of the
leadership.
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the party
had suspended Okonkwo on January 6 this year
over what it described as anti-party activities
during the Anambra 2013 governorship election.
But according to him, “My suspension was
investigated by Senator Kabiru Gaya’s Committee
and exonerated me from all allegations.
“I stepped down my gubernatorial ambition for
peace to be in the party but instead of being
hailed for this sacrifice, I was hunted and
hounded which orchestrated my suspension from
duty as Deputy National Chairman (South) on a
trumped up petition of anti-party activities,”
Okonkwo stated.
“The National Chairman of the party is aware of
my involvement in the formation of this party from
the onset when all members were given the
onerous task of setting up a party to epitomise
change.”
In all of these assignments, he stated: “I
committed myself
financially, mentally and socially. I believed firmly
in the lofty ideal we had jointly and severally set
for ourselves.”
Further, the statement said: “The conviviality,
genre and comradespirit I had hoped for among
the progressives in the formation of this party has
taken flight. What I see now is a gathering of non
progressives that do not have the interest of the
party at heart hence my decision to quit the
party.”
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