As Nigerians anxiously await the second Batch of President Mohammadu Buhari’s Minsterial List,a Former Governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Deomcratic Party(PDP) before the formation of the All Progressive Congress(APC) Chief Ikechi Emenike is battling to hijack the Abia State Minsterial Slot.
Ikechi Emenike who was a Leader of the defunct ANPP,and later defected to the PDP where he contested the Abia State Governorship Election in 2011 as a factional candidate led over 4000 of his supporters to the All Progressive Congress(APC) in 2014 in Umuahia.
Although it was reported in the Media last year that Chief Emenike might declare for the Abia State Governorship Election under the APC,but it appeared there was an agreement reached between him and the South East Vice Chairman of the APC and Leader of the party in Abia State Chief Nyerere Anyim,which was Anyim as the parties consensus candidate in the 2015 governorship election.
The battle of who becomes a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Abia State may be putting the Abia APC on a camotose,because there appear to be disagreement over the choice of Chief Ikechi Emenike as the slot of the party in the State
