Difficult Options For Nigerian Governor As Suspension Looms

There are difficult options for Governor Charles Soludo as the national leadership of APGA prepares to suspend him as a member of the party

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA is set to suspend its only governor, Prof Charles Soludo anytime from Thursday, September 26, 2024.

The move to suspend Soludo is upon the crisis in the national leadership of the party that has seen the governor backing the Sly Ezeokenwa faction that lost legitimacy with the courts.

GWG.ng reports that despite the affirmation of Chief Edozie Njoku as the national chairman by the courts, Soludo has refused to give heed to the judgment. That is despite the affirmation of the court order by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC putting the Njoku led tendency in the driving seat on issues pertaining to the party.

In a way to thwart the Njoku group, the Anambra State House of Assembly understandably under the prodding of Governor Soludo amended the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC Law to vest power on the state chapters of parties to nominate candidates.

Besides, the amendment of the ANSIEC Law, the Njoku leadership has accused Governor Soludo of frontally working to frustrate the leadership of the party accusing the administration’s enablers of forum shopping for court orders to impede the legitimacy of the Njoku led National Working Committee, NWC of APGA.

Njoku speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of another court case instigated by the Soludo inspired Ezeokenwa led leadership at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

He said that 80 per cent of the APGA hierarchy had agreed on the names of Soludo and others to be suspended for anti party activities.

He said others’ names would be announced by the party between today and Thursday in a bid to sanitise and instill discipline, decorum and orderliness in the party.

“Remember what the Chairman of the APGA BoT said, that we the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party should take action so that we don’t look like toothless bulldogs.

“One of those people to be suspended is the governor, and I’m saying, are we going to suspend the only governor we have?

“But if the only governor we have is pretending or playing to the gallery, making these honest people to go in and commit anti-party activities, we must nip this in the bud,” he said.

GWG.ng reports that Soludo is apparently not immediately fazed with the threat of suspension and has continued to act unbothered.

However, some allege that the governor is quietly making moves for a mass defection to another political party possibly after the local government election.

The two parties being mentioned as Soludo’s next port of call are Accord and Action Alliance, AA.

One source in Anambra privy to developments on ground said that Soludo is waiting for a complete end of the judicial issues pertaining to the crisis in APGA before deciding to opt out.

The governor it was gathered is well aware of the burden it would take him to set up structures for a new political party and would thus dilly-dally to see if his faction of APGA could get victory at the courts and as such avoid the stress of moving to a new party.

However, with that prospect still far fetched, what will happen when APGA finally takes the decision to suspend Soludo is that the governor will lay low and cultivate a new political party for his second term aspiration.  

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