By Christiana Ekpa
The National chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Ike Oye has said the party will produce the next president of Nigeria in 2023.
Addressing APGA stalwarts at the Party’s national convention to elect party flag bearers at the party Secretariat in Abuja, the National Chairman of APGA thanked the delegates for traveling from far and near despite the security crisis in the country to attend the event.
“This gathering is for the sake of justice in Nigeria,” he said, assuring that his tenure as APGA Chairman would end in June next year after the party would have produced Nigeria’s president.
The convention was attended by Enyinaya Abaribe, the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District.
Recall that Abaribe recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APGA, where he stands as the latter’s flagbearer for the Senate at the polls next year.
Also, a former Minister of Information, Frank Nweke, who is APGA governorship candidate in Enugu State, attended the convention.
During the APGA national convention, former Chief Judge of Anambra State, Prof. Peter Umeadi, who emerged unopposed as the presidential candidate of the party, said his presidency will be anchored on ‘triple banner of rule of law, separation of powers and due process.’
Umeadi, whose victory was affirmed by 150 delegates at the convention, said “Nigerians are entitled to a country better run than what we have now.”
He assured of “a new Nigeria which an APGA government at the centre under my watch would bring about.”
Umeadi lamented that “Nigerians are traumatized on (a) daily basis from wanton killings, displacements, disorganisation of business and social life with attendant difficulty to sustain economic, commercial and domestic life.”
The presidential hopeful further pledged “to galvanize” Nigerians “from different religious persuasions and all six geopolitical zones, to deliver a new Nigeria where justice would reign.”
He promised “sound education, affordable health care, food on the table, security of life and property,” If elected.
Umeadi, is a law professor, who retired from the Anambra State Judiciary in March this year, and immediately joined APGA in his Anaocha council area of the state.
