Abaribe picks APGA Senatorial nomination form as election holds today

The Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Chief Enyinnaya Abaribe has finally picked the nomination form of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to pursue his return to the senate ambition.

This development puts to rest weeks of speculations about Abaribe’s political fate as the governor vowed to retire him politically.

 Abaribe who is also the Minority Leader on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 9th Senate, has had a running battle with the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, over his bid to return to the Senate. But Ikpeazu who is from the same constituency as Abaribe outsmarted him and clinched the party’s ticket in the recently held primary in the state forcing Abaribe to finally dumped the PDP, after describing the primary as a ‘charade’.

It was gathered that Abaribe has moved to APGA with his teeming supporters and loyalists from not only Abia South, but also Abia Central.

It was also gathered that the Senator has begun talks with APGA leadership both at the national and state levels over his moving to the party when he realised the plot to frustrate his ambition by the governor.

Confirming the development this morning the Director General of Prof Gregory Ibe Campaign Organisation in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, Chief Emeka Okoafor, said that Abaribe has not only picked APGA’s nomination to run for Senate, but that he will be contesting in the senatorial primary of the party scheduled for Friday, May 27, 2022.

Speaking further, Okoafor said the senator and his supporters have moved to APGA some couple of weeks ago.

Asked if he can be quoted on this, the DG, said, *I am very sure of what I am telling you. Go ahead and report it. Abaribe is now a member of APGA. He is moving into our party with his supporters in Abia. And this is good for him in order to realise his ambition which the governor wanted to ‘kill’”.

He also said that the Senatorial Nomination form of APGA costs N10 million, adding that a leading governorship aspirant in the state had already volunteered to pay for Abaribe.

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