From Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has wooed over 200 support groups including non-governmental organisations which have indicated interest to work for the candidates of the ruling party in the state.
The Publicity Secretary of the Coalition of the APC Support Groups, Comrade Emmanuel Victor Nweze made this known while interacting with journalists after their meeting on Wednesday at Akanu Ibiam International Conference Centre, Abakaliki.
Comrade Nweze who is the Ebonyi State Coordinator of the Asiwaju Grassroots Foundation (AGF) Project Beyond 2023, disclosed that the support groups have concluded a plan to have over 2 million march for the candidates of the APC on Saturday in the state.
Further, the State Chairman of the APC, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha said the significance of the meeting of the support groups was to brainstorm ways out to win the 2023 general elections.
Chief Emegha, who is the National Deputy Chairman of the Forum of the APC Chairmen in Nigeria, expressed his readiness to deliver Ebonyi state for the party's candidates, urging all the stakeholders of the party to follow suit.
He condemned the rumour that the APC was not tolerant of the opposition parties in Ebonyi, as he argued that his party has not seen resisting forces in the state let alone tolerating them.
He said his party was never an electoral umpire - INEC, but its members and supporters have begun taking all necessary steps to convince Ebonyi people to throw their weight behind its candidates in the 2023 general elections.
It was equally well gathered that the campaign strategic meeting was attended by the Ebonyi APC candidates for the 2023 elections, the state's newly sworn-in executive chairmen of the 13 local government areas, the party officials and some stakeholders with the four executive members of different support groups including their chairmen, secretaries, youth leaders and woman leaders.
