The new leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has said that the party would play its opposition role in a manner that it will guarantee growth and sustenance of democracy in the country.
Newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, who made this known in an interview in Awka stated that APGA would not be found wanting with the calibre of people elected last Saturday to pilot its affairs at the national level.
He disclosed that the immediate task before the new leadership of APGA was to restructure the party in such a way that people at the grassroots would become the real stakeholders in the party.
He commended the leadership of Chief Victor Umeh, saying, “I must congratulate the past national executives for holding forth and sustaining the success of the party so far.
“I also wish to express my gratitude to our former National Chairman, Chief Sir Victor Umeh, who has been a worthy party leader and member.
“At this point we are re-oiling the party’s structure and re-energising it so that members would feel proud of being APGA members.”
APGA, he further said would exploit the emerging spread it acquired during the last general elections to ensure that it established its presence in all the states of the federation in readiness for the 2019 general elections where it hoped to make a serious statement.
Obi-Okoye, who was former Anambra State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said the new leadership of Dr. Victor Oye would reach out to all aggrieved members of APGA with a view to achieving true reconciliation.
On Abia governorship, he expressed optimism that APGA would recover the governorship seat in Abia State, which it allegedly won but was robbed of victory, at the election petition tribunal.