By Dapo Akinrefon
The disaster rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State has escalated because the get together’s Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, overturned what it described as an unconstitutional transfer by the State Govt Committee, SEC, to take away the state chairman, Alphonsus Ogar Eba.
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The APC Nationwide Authorized Adviser, Murtala Aliyu Kankia, in a letter dated December 4, 2025, summoned Eba to look earlier than the nationwide management on Monday, December 8, to reply to the vote of no confidence handed by members of the SEC.
The NWC stated the assembly would allow it to “hear straight from the chairman and make sure that due course of is adopted.”
The summons got here amid rising factional stress after some SEC members reportedly claimed that “The System” now not wished Eba and introduced his elimination, an motion Eba dismissed as unlawful and “a joke taken too far.”
The embattled chairman had final month rejected comparable requires his resignation by the Discussion board of Chapter Chairmen and Secretaries, who accused him of high-handedness, diversion of get together funds, and failure to remit stipends to ward and chapter officers.
Eba, nonetheless, fired again, accusing the identical officers of monetary misconduct involving greater than N60m.
He stated the get together had adopted a direct fee methodology to curb diversion of funds and make sure that stipends went into the accounts of the 5,778 ward and chapter officers statewide.
He added that some chapter chairmen allegedly obtain hundreds of thousands of naira month-to-month from political appointees and withhold funds launched by the federal government for get together administration on the native degree.
In accordance with him, no chapter chairman has the constitutional authority to demand the resignation of a state chairman, insisting that disciplinary powers over him lie with the South-South Zonal Govt Committee as supplied by Article 21(3)(vi)(d) of the APC structure.
The transfer by the NWC is seen as an try to halt the escalating disaster forward of the 2027 normal elections.
Eba’s rising affect inside the nationwide construction has additionally been a key speaking level. He’s a member of the APC structure evaluation committee, nominated by President Bola Tinubu on the February 2025 NEC assembly. He additionally serves as Nationwide Secretary of the Discussion board of State Chairmen and represents the South-South within the evaluation course of.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and different senior figures are stated to treat him as one of many get together’s most energetic rising politicians.
Eba maintained that the try to oust him is politically motivated.
“The method is a joke taken too far. God will converse on the acceptable time,” he stated.
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