APGA plans reconciliation, sets up peace panel

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  From: Africcon Media – Nigeria
  
  There are indications that the protracted leadership crisis rocking the All Progressive Grand Alliance may soon come to an end with the likelihood of the two factions, led by Victor Umeh and Maxi Okwu, meeting together for a resolution of the crisis.
  
  Already, a 14-man Truth and Reconciliation Committee, led by the APGA leader in Abia State and the party’s governorship candidate in the 2011 election in the state, Chief Regan Ufomba, has been constituted.
  
  The committee has three weeks to complete its assignment.
  
  Okwu told told journalists on Tuesday in Abuja that the April 8, 2013, national convention had been validated by the May 27, 2013, High Court sitting in Awka’s judgment, which had been officially communicated to Independent National Electoral Commission by his team to shift the commission’s recognition from Umeh to his camp.
  
  He also said the reported move by Umeh for reconciliation was a welcome development, as the critical stakeholders and party elders Umeh had been meeting over the reconciliation move were the same persons his camp had been meeting to resolve the leadership crisis in the party.
  
  He said, “We have set up a Truth and Reconciliation Committee, led by Chief Reagan Ufomba. They have three weeks to work. Our target is that by the end of June, APGA will come out full blast. The other side, led by Umeh, has approached critical stakeholders for reconciliation process and we welcome them and hope to work together to resolve the crisis.”
  
  “In line with the Article 10 of APGA Constitution, we would have named the Board of Trustee members but we were asked by the elders of the party to wait till the end of June, when the 14-man committee would have finished its assignment, including holding public sittings in Abuja, Enugu, Awka and Lagos.
  
  “I am happy Chief Umeh is making the moves, I enjoined him to be committed to it in the interest of our party and the nation?s democracy.”
  
  Apart from Ufomba, other members of the committee are Obi Okafor (Secretary), Eugene Chukwudi Orizu, Chris Azubogu, Alhaji Tijani Idris, Samuel Ebogbodiri, Chief Ray Morphy, Hajia Zainab Nnena Abdullahi, Lady Chika Gbugu, Alhaji Abubakar Adamu, Comrade Joseph Tondo, Ezekiel Adegboyega, Ikechukwu Ejesiene and Chief Peter Orji.
  
  When asked to comment on a similar reconciliation committee set up by Chief Umeh, Okwu said it was clear that it had been overtaken by the Awka judgement and that it was the reason why he was setting up his own committee.