At least 400 aggrieved aspirants of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State plan to work against the party in the House of Assembly polls on March 9, if their money spent to procure nomination forms was not refunded.
Owelle Onyeka Mbaso, Chairman of the APGA Aggrieved Aspirants Forum (AAAF) told newsmen in Awka on Thursday.
The aspirants also said they had lost confidence in the abilities of National Chairman of the party, Victor Oye, and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, and called for their immediate resignation.
Mbaso said that over 400 aspirants in Anambra spent millions of naira before and during the party’s primaries, which had not been refunded to them even after a parley with reconciliation committee and the governor.
They warned that the abysmal performance of the party in the presidential and national assembly elections last week was just a preamble of what would happen on March 9, if their demands were not met.
“We have resolved that Oye should resign and refund our money. Last year we met with the governor, we had a meeting with him and he agreed to meet with our demands,”
He said that the governor knew the implication of what would happen on March 9 in the House of Assembly election, if their money was not refunded before then.
Mbaso said that Oye had failed woefully “and we demand his resignation because he doesn’t have the capacity to pilot the affairs of the party.’’
“The man is to refund the aggrieved aspirants their money used to buy forms and up till now nothing has happened,” he said, added that: “And we warned that if that is not done, the party will not do well in the election, but some cabals in the system decided that we are nobody.”
He threatened that APGA’s poor performance in last week’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state “was just a preamble of what will happen on March 9.” The opposition People’s Democratic Party beat APGA in Anambra State at the polls.
“There is a chance for them to come down to negotiate with the aspirants that went to primaries from which they were disfranchised,” Mbaso said.
“So we are calling on the governor to meet with the aspirants and meet their demands and again, he said, adding that: ‘‘The governor knows the consequences the he will face in the House, if APGA did not get the majority in the House of Assembly.”
