From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
Former Minister of State, Mines and Steel, Uche Ogah has vowed to remain in All Progressives Congress (APC) and work for the victory of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other candidates of the party in the coming polls.
Ogah made this known at APC secretariat in Umuahia during a meeting he organized to thank his supporters for remaining behind him.
He noted that he remained the leader of APC in Abia who controls the support and popularity from the grassroots, which he said, is made evident by the growth recorded by APC in the last eight years.
He recalled how his efforts harvested quantum votes for APC in Abia in 2019, wondering how he would abandon a house he built and take refuge elsewhere.
“I won’t leave my family, I won’t quit my party. No body abandons a house he built because a mad man invaded that house. We will remain here If you love me, deliver these candidates”, Ogah said.
The publicity Secretary of APC, Chief Ofor Okorie said the mammoth crowd that welcomed Ogah was a testimony of his closeness to the people.
Okorie noted that Ogah approached the judiciary with a genuine case but pointed out that the Supreme Court judgment would note wane the former Minister’s love for APC.
The publicity Secretary also dismissed the reports that Ogah had endorsed the guber project of PDP candidate, saying that such reports emanated from the pit of falsehood, maintaining that Ogah’s support is for Tinubu and other candidates of APC.