Barr Ben Nwoye emerges APC Deputy Chairman

Dr. Ben Nwoye is now the new Deputy National Chairman (South) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He was elected yesterday night in the party’s National Convention held at Okara Square.

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He had earlier been screened with Chief Emma Eneukwu, the immediate past Deputy National Chairman. However, Nwoye’s characteristic adroitness proved effective once again.

He proposed the creation of “Women and Youth Empowerment Desk”, pitching himself as a man of essential wisdom who could transform APC into modern political machine in southern Nigeria where the party still struggles to have roots.

“The APC must continue to be broad enough to accommodate diversity and disciplined enough to protect its values,” Nwoye said during the lead-up to the election.

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The result was that Chief Eneukwu withdrew in what appeared to be some inside pressure.

Dr Nwoye is a legal luminary of note and the immediate past Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in Enugu State. He has been in and around APC, playing vital roles that made the party stay afloat in the heat of waves of the Peoples Democratic Party.