News About Nigeria reports that an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain has claimed that the struggle for ministerial slots in the Bola Tinubu administration is responsible for the ongoing crisis rocking the party.
The chieftain said that the party has been battling with a crisis since the presidential and governorship elections, which has led to the suspension of members across various states in the country, including Delta, Abia, and Enugu.
In Delta, the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, and the governorship candidate of the APC in the state, Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, were suspended.
Similarly, in Abia State, seven chieftains, including former Abia State governor, Dr Chris Akomas, former Minister of State for Solid Minerals, Dr Uche Ogah, former Pro-chancellor of the University of Calabar, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, and the Executive Secretary of the National Land Development Agency (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, were suspended for alleged anti-party activities.
According to the anonymous APC chieftain, the party members are fighting against each other because of the ministerial slots.
He said that the members are not interested in the state of the party or the President-elect but in the positions they may occupy in the next dispensation.
The chieftain advised the President-elect to consider merit and competence in appointing ministerial nominees.
Meanwhile, the suspended members have reacted to their suspensions, with some denying the allegations leveled against them.
The Director General of VON, Osita Okechukwu, who was suspended in Abia State, accused the chairman of the party of hijacking the party with the assistance of the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma.
Okechukwu claimed that the chairman drove all stakeholders away and boasted that he would quadruple the 56,000 votes scored by the APC in the 2019 presidential election.
