Work as a magician, APGA chair tells Tinubu

The newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Barr Sylvester Ezeokenwa, has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to perform magic, saying the country is “dying”.

At an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos, Ezeokenwa (38), who was elected in June, declared that the new executive would build APGA “as a progressive party for Nigerians fuelled by the younger generation.”

Ezeokenwa, who is a one-time legal adviser of the party, had unveiled the DRIVE project anchored on discipline, repositioning, inclusiveness, visibility and expansion of the party.

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He said he was poised to change the notion of APGA as an Igbo party and Anambra party without youth representation, declaring that as a youth himself, the younger generation would drive the reform agenda being championed by the party.

He stressed the need to entrench party supremacy in accordance with the constitution of the party, advising political parties to have code of conduct in their own constitutions in order to instill discipline on party members.

Speaking on the state of the nation, the APGA chairman said the nation expected Tinubu to be a magician and act as one having realised the enormity of the challenges confronting the nation before he decided to contest.

He also called on Nigerians to support the president to succeed in delivering on his mandate to the people, adding that, “We will not fail to call him out if he fails.”