The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the claim that Chief Ikechi Emenike shunned the party’s National Reconciliation Committee.
The party said Emenike presented a written submission to the committee ahead of its Abuja meeting.
It added that the APC state executive also responded to the petition in writing.
The party, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Okey Ezeala, said the leader of the group which wrote the petition over the outcome of the congresses in the state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, was also absent at the session despite being invited.
The committee led by former Nasarawa State governor and Senator representing Nasarawa West District, Adamu Abdullahi, said the meeting became necessary following a petition from concerned party members.
The Abia APC had been divided between the Emenike group and the faction led by Kalu and
the former state Chairman, Donatus Nwankpa.
The chairman of the APC National Reconciliation Committee, Adamu Abdullahi, on Friday, said Emenike did not appear before his committee
However, Ezeala said: “Everything the Emenike group had to say was put in writing. The group that petitioned the reconciliation committee boycotted the 2021 APC Congress and should live with the consequences of that action.
“A competent court of jurisdiction in its final judgment backed the congresses in Abia. When our chairman, Mazi Enyinnaya Habor died, this group celebrated. What kind of people would celebrate a fellow human being’s death?
“To fill the vacuum created by Mazi’s death, the national secretariat of our great party ordered an election. This group tried to stop it but the court lampooned them and described them as meddlesome interlopers and ordered the congress to go on.
“Abia APC is united as many of their executives and supporters are now with the mainstream, including Chief Obi Aham, Barrister Menyechi Onuoha and Comrade Ben Godson.
“Kalu is gloating and boasting about his relationship with Adamu, the chairman of the committee. He is not interested in reconciliation.
“The APC under the new executive is working to consolidate the party while the other group is conspiring with the PDP to rock the boat and derail the party but they will not succeed. Abia will be rescued from the vicious greed of those who have plunged the state into darkness.”