Delta APC Chairman wants to destroy our party- Mene cries out

The All Progressive Congress party’s Organising Secretary for Delta State, Sir Amorighoye Mene, has accused the state chairman, Prophet Jones Erue of causing internal wrangling within the party.

He made this statement after the purported suspension of the party’s secretary, Mr. Chidi Okonji by the Delta State party chairman.

The APC SEC in a statement signed by its secretary, Okonji, had condemned the purported suspension of the deputy chairman, Engr. Elvis Ayomanor, the woman leader, Dr. (Mrs) Janet Oyubu and seven others by the chairman on the grounds that legal process and consultations were not followed.

But the Chairman did not stop there. He went on to call LGA chairmen, ward chairmen, and women leaders, who are not members of the State Executive Council as stated by the party’s constitution, for a SEC meeting at the APC secretariat in Asaba, the first to be held since the March 2019 polls.

According to him, most of the party members boycotted the meeting, given the directive of the State Working Committee on February 5, which called on the chairman to “step aside”.

The SEC further set up a five-man committee to investigate alleged irregularities in the use of party funds by the troubled chairman.

This line of actions snowballed into the suspension of the party’s secretary, Chidi Okonji, by the suspended chairman, Erue

Mena accused Erue of always flouting the provisions of the party’s constitution, which allows every officer fair hearing.

“Now he called the meeting a SEC meeting but women leaders, youth leaders, and ward chairmen are not members of SEC by the party’s constitution. So the meeting he called was an illegal and unlawful meeting and it had no bearing with the party’s constitution. It had no bearing whatsoever.

“At the meeting, he purported to have suspended the party’s secretary, Chidi Okonji, without relying on the clear provisions of the constitution which gives every party officer, the right of fair hearing. Even though today, he is not in a position to constitute any committee for fair hearing because he has been suspended.

“He cannot purport to suspend anybody, unless the person has been investigated and given the benefit of fair hearing. That action itself is an act of illegality on the part of the former chairman. He also removed the deputy chairman, whom he said he had removed before and replaced him with Moses Ogodo," Mena said.