{"id":567,"date":"2025-07-21T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=567"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:14:00","slug":"minister-vows-apc-will-take-over-enugu-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Minister vows APC will take over Enugu in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress will take over Enugu State in the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nnaji made this assertion while receiving over 500 defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance into the APC on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ayra Starr - Goodbye (Warm Up) ft. 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If you come to Enugu too, Holy Ghost suffered the same fate, Garki and Abakpa suffered the same fate, and Ogurute market here in Igbo-Eze North LGA suffered the same fate, and I wonder how our people who are predominantly businessmen can survive without trading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nnaji expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for appointing Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, who is from Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, as the Chief of Naval Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu knows that we are here; he knows we are doing all these things for the state and for him and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe knows and he has our support 101 per cent and he is behind us, we are APC,\u201d Nnaji said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister assured that the APC will do everything possible and within the law to displace the PDP government under Governor Peter Mbah in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to fight, we are going to do everything humanly possible and within the ambit of law to make sure that come 2027 our people will start rejoicing again,\u201d Nnaji asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The APC State Chairman, Ugochukwu Agballah, welcomed the defectors, describing the influx of new members as a \u201crainbow movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know that in the last election, the Labour Party won in Igbo-Eze North, LP won the House of Assembly, won the House of Rep, won everything, but they were rigged out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you know why they were rigged out? It\u2019s because they were in a one-man show. One-man-show parties don\u2019t go far, politics is like a market, one person does not constitute the market,\u201d Agballah said. <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/minister-vows-apc-will-take-over-enugu-in-2027\/\">(Punch)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress will take over Enugu State in the 2027 general elections. Nnaji made this assertion while receiving over 500 defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance into the APC on Monday. 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