Alex Otti: APC gives Orji Kalu, Nkwonta 14 days to apologise

Abia State section of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and Chris Nkwonta to publically apologize for remarks deemed anti-party, oregon hazard facing disciplinary measures.

The determination was made by the State Working Committee, SWC, chaired by Chijioke Chukwu, during a gathering successful Umuahia connected Wednesday.

This follows Kalu’s assertion connected nationalist tv that Governor Alex Otti of the Labour Party, LP, would unafraid re-election successful 2027, and Nkwonta’s declaration astatine a reception for the President’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, successful Ukwa East, wherever helium expressed his volition to ballot for Otti.

In a connection by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Uche Aguoru, the SWC unanimously condemned some statements arsenic unstatesmanlike, embarrassing, and detrimental to the party’s unity and electoral prospects for 2027.

The APC noted that specified behaviour contravened Article 21.2(11) of the APC Constitution, which permits disciplinary enactment against members whose actions undermine the party.

The SWC called connected some lawmakers to contented unreserved nationalist apologies that bespeak their committedness to the enactment and its candidates for 2027 wrong the specified timeframe, cautioning that non-compliance would pb to the enactment of a disciplinary committee to urge ...