Claims of a “United APC” in Enugu State collapsed almost immediately on Friday, January 9th 2026 as party stakeholders dismissed reports of a reunification as misleading, legally unfounded and politically contrived.
The stakeholders said the individual paraded as leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the widely circulated reports, Ugochukwu Agballah, neither controls nor leads the recognised party structure in the state.
According to them, the meeting held at the Enugu Government House was not a gathering of the Enugu APC structure but a convergence of members of (APC-in-Abuja & PDP-in-Enugu), who did not vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu or APC candidates in the 2023 General Elections. These old PDP/APC actors gathered to deliberately manufacture the impression of party unity.
They stressed that Agballah is a former chairman whose tenure ended in 2024 following his impeachment by the Enugu State Executive Committee over alleged misconduct. Subsequently, a court of competent jurisdiction restrained him from parading himself as state chairman.
“These are settled facts,” a party source said. “Impeachment is on record. The court order is subsisting. So the question is simple: how does one collapse a structure one neither controls nor leads?”
The stakeholders warned against confusing political optics with organisational authority, noting that handshakes, photographs and choreographed appearances do not translate into leadership or control of party machinery.
They maintained that leadership of the authentic APC structure in Enugu resides with Uche Geoffrey Nnaji, who, they said, has sustained the party since 2022 through consistent funding of ward and local government meetings and continuous grassroots mobilisation at a time the party enjoyed neither state patronage nor political convenience.
According to them, the APC structure in Enugu remains intact, functional and loyal to the party’s national leadership, having worked for the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and continuing to align with the Renewed Hope Agenda.
While acknowledging that Governor Peter Mbah has openly aligned with the APC at the national level, the stakeholders insisted that Enugu APC has not followed him, stressing that individual political realignments do not automatically translate into the transfer of party structures.
“The suggestion that APC in Enugu suddenly became ‘one family’ because of a publicised meeting is political theatre,” another stakeholder said. “A political party is not built on optics. It is built on law, sacrifice and consistency.”
They added that reconciliation remains welcome in politics but warned that it must be lawful, truthful and respectful of existing structures, not imposed through public relations narratives.
“Facts are stubborn,” the stakeholders said. “And real party structures cannot be collapsed by fiction.”
