APGA youths throw weight behind National Chairman, Ezeokenwa

Youths of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have thrown their weight behind the leadership of its National Chairman, Barrister Sly Ezeokenwa.

They urged him not to be distracted by the purported activities of moles within and outside the party.

The youths wing said the current structure of the party represented the dreams of its founding fathers, which the national chairman emboldened and worked assiduously to entrench.

They stressed that it was foolhardy that unscrupulous elements were scheming to decimate and destabilize APGA as currently constituted.

National Youth Leader, Comrade Eze Onyebuchi-Chukwu, said this in a statement titled, ‘Sly Ezeokenwa we know, Edozie Njoku we don’t know’, which was made available to journalists in Abakaliki, on Tuesday.

Parts of the statement read, “APGA has never been a Youth party until Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo came onboard and found trust in the capacity of the Youths which saw the handing over of the entire party structure to the Youths leadership.

“For the first time in the history of Nigeria politics, a Youth yet to be 40 years was trusted enough to lead a top five National Political Party as it’s National Chairman.

“This of course, is an answered prayer to the Youths of Nigeria who have over the years been marginalized and tactically sidelined in the leadership of any kind in the country. This new turn of events we the youths of APGA will not trade for any political gimmicks.

“We, the youths of APGA are not unaware of the new twist of things where falsehood thinks itself popular enough to outshine the truth. We are in APGA because APGA came to us first. We accepted Barr Ezeokenwa Jr, because he’s one of us and anything short of that is short of us.

“Since inception, Sly Ezeokenwa has constantly reiterated his resolve to turn APGA a Youth oriented political party where aspirants will stand candidates based on age, merit and competence.

“He has in many occasions promised the youths of his first consideration, giving young people the hope they have lost in contesting and winning elections without a Godfather in Nigeria where money replaces competency. This we will not throw away because of desperate politicians.”