The
endorsement was announced in a communique issued after a meeting at the party’s
secretariat on Sunday.
In the
communique signed by statutory delegates from the State, they also disclosed
support for the current national organizing secretary of the party, Senator
Osita Izunaso and the national auditor of the party, Chief George Moghalu.
State
chairman of the party, Dr. Ben Nwoye, who read the communique issued at the end
of the meeting, which was also attended by the State Working Committee members
of the party, said all the existing zoning arrangements of the party remains.
The
development is not unconnected to a press statement issued by a certain group
in the State, which is rooting for Chief Onyemuche Nnamani as Eneukwu’s
replacement.
But the
party said such people should be discountenanced as they were only merely in a
task to destabilize the APC in Enugu State and eventually deny President
Muhammadu Buhari votes in 2019.
The
communique read in part, “Chief Hon. Emma Eneukwu having performed excellently
well and being an indigene of Udi Local Government Area has the support of the
entire Enugu State delegates to the APC national convention.
“That we condemn in totality any attempt by
anybody no matter how highly placed to destabilize the agreed zoning
arrangement in the State, previously established by leaders of the party in
2014, as it relates to party positions.
“That we
commend the national convention committee of the APC in all of its efforts in
planning a hitch-free national convention.
“Enugu State
APC cannot be cowed by cowed by anybody, no matter any previous position you
may have held, or the position the person may occupy. We must learn that new
leaders must emerge, we can’t continue to lead this country with our past
glory.
“Everyday
new leaders emerge, the world is calling for new leaders. Very recently,
President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not Too Young to Run Bill into law, this
shows progressive leadership.”
“Those who
have been either past governor, past senator or past this or that must allow
new leaders to emerge, must allow those who are leading well to lead. We cannot
be cowed by those who joined us from PDP.
“If PDP was
a great party, where they had served as either senator or SSG, they should have
remained in PDP; we built APC, we established APC in Enugu State. So, we cannot
be pushed around.
“People
believe that politics is about their village, that politics is about those who
bear the same surname with them.
“Today,
Enugu State APC has taken a stand, we cannot have a state chairmen from Nkanu
West and Vice Chairman, Nkanu West it can’t help us in election. People here
are not in APC because Buhari won, they have been here even when APC was yet to
be accepted, when people called us all sorts of names, including Boko Haram.
Some of us we almost ostracized. We cannot, therefore, at this stage allow
latter day converts push us aside.
“For
emphasis, Emma Enuekwu, George Moghalu, Osita Izunaso are our choice, we are
100 percent behind our leaders. They are our National Working Committee members
from South-East,” it further stated.
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