Tension in Abia oil producing communities over APC House of Reps ticket

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The particulate raised by the May 16, 2026 House of Representatives superior predetermination conducted by the All Progressive Congress, APC successful Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal constituency of Abia State has refused to settle.

This is contempt the caller connection by the enactment successful the State affirming Chris Nkwonta arsenic the victor of the primary.

Abia State section of the APC had connected July 1, 2026 , reiterated that the superior predetermination was won by the incumbent subordinate of the House of Representatives, Chris Nkwonta, dismissing immoderate proposition to the contrary.

But on Sunday, a ample radical of APC members from the lipid producing country of Ukwa East and Ukwa Federal constituency gathered astatine Oforji Road, disconnected Port Harcourt Road successful Obehie, Ukwa West LGA of Abia State to importune that the APC House of Representatives summons was won by their son, Samuel Nwogu, the erstwhile Chairman of Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, ASOPADEC.

The pro-Nwogu people, who appeared with placards, comprised members of New Ukwa Progressive Initiative, NUPI,  Asa Development Union, ADA,  Renewed Hope Ambassadors, among different indigenes.

The leaders, who spoke done Akanwa Franklin, Boniface Nwaigwe, among others, said the House of Representatives spot had been occupied by a peculiar conception of the constituency for 20 years consecutively.

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