Representative Chris Nkwonta Lays Foundation For Escalation Of APC Membership In Abia-South.
Monday(Orie) 31-03-2025.
Since he joined All Progressives Congress, APC, after he had won election on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in October 2024, the Member representing Ukwa-East and Ukwa-West Federal Constituency in the 10th House of Representatives, Chief Chris Nkwonta has voluntarily taken it as his responsibility to make sure All Progressives Congress, APC, which was almost non-existent in Ukwa-East and Ukwa-West Federal Constituency becomes a household name and a Political Party that will readily win elections in the area.
To that extent, he had expensively and successfully embarked on sensitisation and mobilization visits to the Registration Areas in the two Local Government Areas of the Federal Constituency. Being a Man that had impacted very positively on many individuals in the Constituency even before holding any political position, his efforts have yielded quite enormously.
Having built the All Progressives Congress into a state of readiness for any electoral eventuality and also electoral success in Ukwa-East and Ukwa-West Federal Constituency, Chief Nkwonta altruistically reasoned that if APC would win only in his Federal Constituency, and lose in the other four Local Government Areas of Aba-North, Aba-South, Obingwa, and Ugwunagbo, that are also in Abia-South Senatorial District, and being the highest elected Political Office Holder in Abia-South Senatorial District, on the Platform of All Progressives Congress, it would not be in the overall interest of the People of Abia-South, Abia State and the South-East in general.
Like the Political Generalissimo and workaholic that he has always been which he had imbibed right from his early days as a young man in the Nigerian Private Sector, he decided to deploy enormous resources to expanding the influence and acceptability of All Progressives Congress, APC, to the entire Abia-South Senatorial District.
Therefore, on Sunday 30th March, 2025, he summoned, through an aggressive Radio and Social Media announcements, a meeting of all Party Executive Organs and Stakeholders in Abia-South Senatorial District in his Akwete Country-home. The response was almost explosive. A meeting that had been estimated to have an attendance of about 1,500 persons ended up recording over three thousand persons.
The State Chairman of the Party in the State, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu, was ably represented by the State Secretary of the Party, Chief Chidi Avoaja, who led some other members of the State Executive Committee. Of course, the Chairman of the Party in Abia-South Senatorial District, Sir Justice Onwunmelu who presided over the meeting, led other members of his Executive Committee to the meeting.
Many Stakeholders that graced the meeting included the Commissioner representing Abia State on the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, Chief Eruba Dimgba, Ph.D, the 2023 Deputy Governorship Candidate of the Party in Abia State, Barr (Mrs) Glory Akara, a former Member of House of Representatives, Rt Hon Uzor Azubuike, a former Deputy Speaker in Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emeka Stanley, a former Member of Abia State House of Assembly for Aba Central, Sir Abraham Oba, a former Deputy Leader of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Paul Taribo, a former Executive Chairman of Obingwa Local Government Council, Chief Isaac Ogbonna, a former Transition Committee Chairman of Obingwa Local Government Council, Elder Godwin Nna, a former Commissioner in Abia State Executive Council, Prince Ezekwesiri Ananaba, a former Chief Whip in Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Tony Mezie Nwubani, a former Executive Chairman of Ukwa-West Local Government Council, Chief Sylvanus Uzoma Nwaji, a former Member-elect of House of Representatives, Sir Esiaba Iwezor, a former Commissioner for Petroleum in Abia State, Chief Eze Nwanganga, and a Woman Leader from Ukwa-West, Mrs Rhoda Emeka. Others included a former Executive Chairman of Ukwa-West Local Government Council, Chief Okey Kanu, a former Transition Committee Chairman of Ukwa-West Local Government Council, Chief John Ajuzieogu, a former Commissioner in Abia State Local Government Service Commission, Sir Eugene Dike, a former Sole Administrator of Abia State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, Barr Henry Chilaka, a highly respected political elder in Ukwa-East Local Government Area, Engr Okere Eruba, a former Head of Service in the Unified Local Government Service of Abia State, Mrs Fortune Nwanganga, and Lady Julie Okala, aka Madam Social.
At the end of the meeting, a 7-Point Communiqué was issued thus;
(1) An explicit vote of confidence was passed in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, for the spectacular way in which he has, so far, piloted the affairs of the Nigerian State, including Security, Economy, Infrastructure, Creation of South-East Development Commission, and appointment of a son of Abia-South Senatorial District, Dr Chukwuemeka Ngozichineke Wogu, Esq, as its inaugural Chairman. APC in Abia-South assures Mr President of abiding loyalty and preparedness to reciprocate his benevolence in 2027 General Election.
(2) APC in Abia-South Senatorial District also expresses satisfaction with the way the National Chairman of the Party, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR, and Members of the National Executive Committee of APC have assiduously managed the affairs of the Party, and, therefore, passes a vote of confidence in them.
(3) That APC in Abia-South Senatorial District is delighted with the Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives, Rt Hon Tajudeen Abbas, GCON, and the Deputy Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives, our own Rt Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu, CON, for extension of their useful interest to Abia-South Senatorial District.
(4) That APC in Abia-South Senatorial District is glad that former Governor of Abia State and Senator representing Abia-North in the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, who was born and bred in Aba, Abia-South, has the confidence of his Colleagues in the Red Chambers, and was appointed Chairman of Senate Committee on the newly created South-East Development Commission, and that APC in Abia-South Senatorial District urges the Distinguished Senator to always remember Abia-South Senatorial District in his numerous Development and Empowerment programmes, for he remains an ‘Aba Boy’.
(5) That APC in Abia-South Senatorial District implores all her Members, both old and new, to work in unity and harmony, without resort to any form of discrimination, bickering or factionalization which does not allow any Political Party to achieve success.
(6) That all Members of APC in Abia-South Senatorial District are enjoined to voluntarily become canvassers and mobilizers in order to enlarge the membership of the Party in the District, as to prepare it adequately for electoral success in 2027 General Election.
(7) That the entirety of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia-South Senatorial District is deeply impressed with the performances of the Member representing Ukwa-East and Ukwa-West Federal Constituency in the 10th House of Representatives and the highest elected Political Office Holder in Abia-South Senatorial District on the Platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon Chris Nkwonta, and do, hereby, pass a vote of absolute confidence in him, and equally urges him, by virtue of his position, to be the rallying-point of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia-South Senatorial District.
Dated, 30th March, 2025.
