APGA denies expelling Abaribe, says Senator resigned in December 2025

By Ugochukwu Alaribe

UMUAHIA — The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has denied claims that it expelled the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinnaya Abaribe, from the party.

The party said the lawmaker was only suspended in September 2025 and later voluntarily resigned from the party in December of the same year.

Speaking in an interview with Vanguard, the Abia State Chairman of APGA, Sunday Onukwubiri, said Abaribe submitted his resignation letter on December 30, 2025, to the chairman of Ahiaba Ward 5 in Obingwa Local Government Area.

According to him, the senator had not been associated with the party since his resignation.

“Let it be known that Senator Abaribe was neither sacked nor expelled from the party. He resigned from the party on December 30, 2025, and submitted his resignation letter to the Ahiaba Ward 5 chairman of Obingwa LGA,” Onukwubiri said.

He questioned Abaribe’s claim of being expelled, arguing that the senator’s resignation letter contradicted such an assertion.

“If Senator Abaribe was sacked as he claimed in September 2025, why did he submit a letter of resignation in December 2025? Ordinarily, anyone who has been expelled is no longer a member of the organisation. But after three months of the purported sack, he filed a resignation letter,” he said.

The APGA chairman also maintained that the party had no crisis either in Abia State or at the national level, describing APGA as one of the most peaceful political parties in the country.

He further stated that Abaribe did not respond to the suspension imposed on him by the party before eventually resigning.

“In politics, when you are suspended, you can come and ask what you did wrong. But Abaribe never responded to the party. Even before the suspension, the party leadership wrote to him around July or August 2025, reminding him that since he assumed office, he had not called party leaders to a meeting, not even at the zonal level,” Onukwubiri said.

He added that the party leadership had asked the senator to convene a meeting to discuss the progress of the party, but the request was not honoured.

Meanwhile, APGA, in an earlier statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, alleged that some associates of the senator had been reaching out to former party members in an attempt to procure a letter for him.

The party said it had uncovered what it described as “secret moves” by the senator’s associates within the past 48 hours.

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