APGA Split Over? Bianca "To Succeed Ojukwu As Party Leader"

According to the Daily Sun newspaper, the crisis within the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) might soon subside. It would be
recalled that the party has broken into fractions as the National
Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, refused to comply with the stakeholders
and restructure APGA after its leader, Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, was buried last March.
APGA Split Over? Bianca "To Succeed Ojukwu As Party Leader"
Umeh's alleged refusal led to him leading one faction and Governor
Peter Obi the other, with cases still pending in courts. Umeh has been
declared chairman by the Appeal Court in Enugu, and the Obi faction is
heading for the Supreme Court. However, as November -- the month when
the Anambra election is scheduled to be held -- is approaching,the man
trying to reconcile the two factions, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has
doubled his efforts.
According to a source privy to series of meetings of the APGA
chieftains in Abuja, the efforts of the leader of the Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) eventually
paid off.
It has been gathered that Uwazuruike met with Governor Obi, Umeh,
Bianca Ojukwu and other prominent members of APGA in an undisclosed
venue in Abuja, and reached an agreement acoording to which Umeh
should remain as national chairman to conduct the Anambra elections.
The gathering also agreed that Ambassador Bianca would step into the
shoes of her late husband as new APGA leader.
Furthermore, Umeh and Governor Obi would be meeting with Uwazuruike in
Owerri next week to sharpen the new peace achieved.
Bianca is expected back in Nigeria fromSpain in the first week of
August, and itis expected that Umeh will visit Ojukwu's Enugu
residence and the news of the reconciliation will be broken.
According to a source, Obi, who had been playing the role of the
deputy national leader of the party, agreed to make serious sacrifices
in the interest of the party, which, he felt, should remain in power
in Anambra State.
On what would happen to Chief Maxi Okwu, who is the factional chairman
of the Obi-led APGA and the members of the National Working Committee
elected in April during the Awka convention, the source said with Obi
agreeing to sheathe his sword he would call his people to order.