2027: EBONYI NRM ACCUSES FORMER GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE OF USING PARTY TO COURT APC FAVOUR
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By:Tajudeen Aminat
The Ebonyi State chapter of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, has accused its 2023 governorship candidate, Comrade Tony Usulor, of attempting to use the party’s structure to negotiate political relevance ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In a statement issued on Monday by the state chairman, Hon. Ogodo Stanley, on behalf of the party’s executive members, stakeholders and supporters, the NRM dismissed Usulor’s claim that he had collapsed the party’s structure in Ebonyi into the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ogodo said Usulor had withdrawn from the party’s activities since the 2023 elections and therefore lacked the authority to speak on behalf of the NRM or claim ownership of its structures in the state.
“You cannot collapse what you abandoned,” the chairman said, arguing that Usulor’s former position as the party’s governorship candidate did not give him permanent control over its leadership, membership or structures.
According to Ogodo, the NRM had continued to strengthen its presence in the state through membership registration, structural reorganisation and internal elections despite Usulor’s absence.
He said the former candidate could not credibly claim to have collapsed structures whose current leaders he was allegedly unfamiliar with.
“Since after the 2023 election, Usulor has not participated in our party activities.
“We have conducted elections and put in place our structures at the state, local government and ward levels. He does not know the current executive members at these levels,” Ogodo said.
The chairman described the claim that Usulor had transferred the NRM structure to the APC as politically motivated, stressing that the NRM remained an independent political party operating under its constitution and recognised leadership.
Ogodo further alleged that Usulor was attempting to use the NRM’s name and structure as a bargaining tool in his political dealings with the APC-led government.
He, however, acknowledged Usulor’s constitutional right to leave the NRM for another political party, but maintained that such a decision was personal and could not be interpreted as the transfer, takeover or dissolution of the NRM’s structures in Ebonyi State.
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