APC Appoints Ndoma-Egba National Convention Scribe

Chairman of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has been appointed the national convention secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

The appointment was conferred in a letter from the ruling party on Saturday.

Ndoma-Egba, who confirmed the development, said he was heading to the party secretariat with the chairman of the convention, Jigawa governor, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, to commence work on preparations for APC convention, slated for June 23.

His appointment comes hours after the resignation of Senator Ben Uwajumogu.

Uwajumogu resigned his appointment to what he said were “domestic” reasons beyond his control.

“The reason why I resigned, primarily is that when I was appointed, the date for the national convention, as we were informed, was to be on May 14. Eventually that date was moved to June 2 and there were hopes that the Convention would hold between June 2 and 9. However, the date has now been moved to June 23 and it will conflict with my family activities and responsibilities,” Uwajumogu said.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who also confirmed the development, dismissed reports that the former secretary was forced to resign as a way of consenting to the demands of his state governor, Rochas Okorocha.

Okorochas had threatened to dump the ruling party should his request for a new Scribe be turned down.

“It is not a tradeoff. To the best of my knowledge, the reasons he gave were personal and the National Working Committee NWC has appointed somebody else, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba. I do not know how that can be a tradeoff because if it is so, I think his replacement should have been another person from Imo but the new appointee is from Cross River,” Abdullahi said.