By CHARLES IWUOHA

The Dr. Ben Nwoye-led Caretaker Committee of Enugu Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed reports that a former Commissioner for Works in the state, Ugochukwu Agballah, was inaugurated Thursday by the national leadership of the party as Enugu State APC Chairman, saying the Committee is still in charge.

Addressing Journalists in Enugu on Friday, Nwoye dismissed as a phantom, the claim by Ugo Agballah and his team that they were sworn-in on Thursday in Abuja as Enugu State Chairman adding that he (Agballah) is not a member of the APC.

Nwoye commended the national leadership of the party for allegedly refusing to recognise Agballah as chairman, insisting that he did not participate in any Congress, adding that the Ex-Commissioner is too desperate.

He expressed dismay that Agballah and his supporters were celebrating what he described as “failure” when the corpse of one of the APC members; Chidera Ogaba, who was recently murdered by unknown gunmen during a reconciliation meeting, was being laid to rest and that of the second person killed during the attack, Kelvin Ezeoha, is still lying in the mortuary.

“However,,” Nwoye said, “I’m grateful to the national leadership of our party, Chairman of APC Reconciliation Committee, Senator Adamu, the South East representative in the National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ken Nnamani, former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime for ensuring that justice prevailed.

“I’m not supposed to be speaking because I’m mourning our young members who were brutally murdered while pursuing peace in Enugu APC, but I need to put the record straight, nobody was sworn in as APC chairman during the Inauguration on Thursday.

“I heard Agballah has been moving about in a motorcade celebrating failure and that’s so shameful.

“What Agballah wanted to do was a political coup which failed woefully because he is desperate.

“Justice has been served by the National Leadership of our party. I call on our members to be calm and watch the national Secretariat take a decision on Enugu State.

“For now am still in charge as power abhors vacuum so, I remain the caretaker Committee chairman of Enugu APC.”