Widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Nigeria's current Ambassador to Spain, Bianca Odumegu-Ojukwu has been appointed the new Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
The party's National Executive Committee announced the news at its meeting in Abuja. The meeting was convened by Chief Maxi Okwu, who was recently recognised as APGA National Chairman by the Abuja Federal High Court.
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"NEC reconfirms and further resolves the earlier decision taken on 16th February 2013 and on 22nd March 2013 at the one year anniversary of the demise of our Late Leader and Icon Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu that he remains our symbol and leader the fact of his transit to glory notwithstanding," the communiqué signed by the party's Acting National Publicity Secretary Stanley Chira read.
"His wife and next of kin Iyom Bianca Odumegu-Ojukwu is hereby adopted as the living embodiment of his ideals. She shall in his stead be acknowledged as leader."
The faction said it has reconstituted the Board of Trustees of APGA and that the new BoT with 24 members will be inaugurated at its maiden meeting in two weeks' time.
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