AN alarm was yesterday raised by the leadership of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) over a purported plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to destabilise the Imo State government by causing mayhem that could lead to a state of emergency.Meanwhile, as the APGA crises deepens, a party stalwart in Anambra State and Commissioner for Special Duties, Chief Vincent Ezenwajiaku, has called on Chief Victor Umeh to vacate office as the party's national chairman.Umeh said the purported plans by the PDP was to unleash mass action in the state tomorrow to restore the 27 council chairmen and councillors whose tenure elapsed since August 8, 2012 having being sworn in on August 9, 2010 as well as stampede the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly to swear in the PDP candidate in the Oguta House of Assembly election against subsisting court order.But in a swift response, South East Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ali Odefa, who denied the planned mayhem, stated that the PDP council chairmen and councilors ought to remain in office, stressing that APGA was accusing it because it had failed the people of the state.Addressing journalists in Enugu, Umeh stated that since APGA won governorship election of April 2011, PDP had continued to wage 'war of attrition' against the party, insisting that all necessary action should be taken to avoid an implosion in Imo State.Umeh who recalled the incidents that have given rise to the present development, which he alleged the PDP was using as smokescreen, said council chairmen in the state had approached the court challenging their dissolution by Governor Rochas Okorocha shortly after he was sworn in as governor, explaining that while the state high court simply said the governor lacked the powers to dissolve elected council chairmen but could not order that they be reinstated, the Court of Appeal after a long legal battle ordered that they be reinstated on July 5, 2012.Continuing, Umeh said that the latest suit by the chairmen has been adjourned for ruling on September 3 but instead of waiting for the due date, the PDP was trying to seek extra-judicial means of restoring the council chairmen and their councillors back to office.On the Oguta State Assembly seat, Umeh said there were still subsisting court cases pending at the Supreme Court, and the Imo State High Court, which the PDP had equally subjected themselves to, noting that the party's resort to unleash mayhem would only cause anarchy in the state.Ezenwajiaku who fielded questions from reporters yesterday in Awka, said that party stakeholders were taking all necessary measures to flush out Umeh and his cohorts from whatever positions they claim to be holding in APGA, saying it was a question of time.According to him, Umeh cannot be the national chairman of the party since there was no congress that elected him into office, adding that, 'we can not allow him to destroy APGA.
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