“Enugu APC Not Against Nomination of State’s Minister-Designate”

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Sunday, November 8th, 2015

By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu

BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC has disowned purported media reports, alleging that its leadership was against the nomination of the Minister designate from the area, Barr. Jeffery Onyeama.

It said such mischievous write- ups were the handiwork of some selfish individuals, who claimed to be APC chieftains in the state.

The party pointed out that such people do not believe in the progress, growth, and supremacy of the APC. “What they are after is only their personal pockets.

The party said: “we want to tell you that those peddling such unfounded rumours are not true members of our great party, they are cash and carry politicians who have nothing to offer to the development of APC.

Speaking with newsmen weekend at the party’s secretariat in Enugu, the state chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye, said there is no iota of truth in the “purported reports, because Enugu APC is 100 percent solidly behind the nomination of the Minister designate.

“We are very pleased and satisfied with the choice of our minister designate from Enugu state” Nwoye maintained.

According to him, “It is the first time a Nigerian president is picking his Ministers based on qualification and merit, and we in Enugu APC, are most grateful to him for that act”

Nwoye, posited that the Enugu Minister designate has a very tall and intimidating credentials that would enable him contribute to the development of the entire nation, as well drive the change agenda of the APC.

He noted that nominating Ministers with skills, intellectual capacity, character, and sound qualification such as Barrister Onyeama, remains one of the best thing that has ever happened to the Nigerian nation.

While, urging Nigerians to continue to give the president Buhari’s led administration the necessary support it deserved, Nwoye, assured that the APC government is poised towards alleviating the sufferings of the people occasioned by bad leadership of PDP past government.