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A pro-<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5875" src="https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG-20250207-WA0017.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="224" />APC grassroots group, the Concerned members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra State, have asked the party's national leadership to reject plans by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in 2021, Chief Val. Ozigbo to join the party to contest the 2025 governorship election in the state.

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The group was reacting to information it gathered, revealing that Ozigbo, a loyalist of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate in 2023 general elections has concluded plans to join APC to contest for the party's primary on April 5, 2025, since it has become clear to him that he would not fly with Labour Party.

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Addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Chief Festus Ezeako, the chairman of the Concerned APC group warned the party not to open its doors to Ozigbo, as he would be coming into the party "with his well-known Church politics of denominational division which was introduced into Anambra State politics by his political godfather, Mr. Peter Obi".

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He alleged that Ozigbo made a u-turn from Labour Party and is now on his way to join the APC, "a party he has began to whip up religious and denominational sentiments already even before fully joining the party".

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The chairman of the concerned group remarked that the Catholic/Anglican/Pentecostal politics which was used in destroying the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) , and which was also used to destroy Labour Party, is the only value the former president and CEO of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, Transcorp, is coming to introduce into APC.

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Chief Ezeako accused Ozigbo of hinging his desire to join APC on religious and denominational background, which he said the party must reject instantly.

Regrettably, he said, Anambra State governorship election has never been based on the strength and character of the candidate and the party the candidate is running on its platform, rather on religion and denomination.

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The chairman accused Obi, who he alleged that Ozigbo is his mole, of mobilizing all the Catholic Bishops during the 2021 Anambra State governorship election, to endorse him, adding that he however, still lost the election because critical stakeholders in the state did not support religious sentiment being canvassed by Ozigbo and Obi.

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Ezeako said: "All of them put together did not support him and he failed. He will fail again as Catholic/Anglican/Pentecostal sentiment has become a vexed issue in Anambra State governorship election."

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He noted that Ozigbo's entry into APC is a distraction, as he is neither coming in with any political structure nor strong political influence.

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According to him, the Obedient Movement which Ozigbo banked on for joining LP, has since fizzled out, querying what value his entry into APC will bring, if not to cause religious and denominational rift in a party that does not accept religious and denominational division.