The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), will hold it’s national convention on Saturday, May 13th, to elect officers that will lead the party in the coming years.
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The convention, the first after several years of turbulence, infighting and backstabbing by members, against the party, as well as themselves, will provide an opportunity once again, for repositioning and, in fact moving APGA forward.
Founded about 1998, at the return to civil rule, as a uniting forum for Nigerians of progressive like minds, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, was thought to provide the needed home base for politicians of the South East, from where they would move to partner with colleagues and friends across the country for national activities.
After the first post military rule elections in 1999, with the party having teething problems, and with the known credibility of it’s then National Leader, Late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Cukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and founding National Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, prominent politicians within and outside the zone, identified with APGA, leading it to win it’s first governorship and some assembly seats in Anambra State.
Some of it’s assembly candidates, were also successful in other States, with many contesting national elections on the party’s platform.
