APGA Accuses Abaribe of Forging Fake Sack Letter

The leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Abia State chapter has firmly rejected claims that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe was sacked or expelled from the party, insisting the lawmaker voluntarily resigned his membership on December 30, 2025.

NaijaChoice News reports that the party’s spokesperson, Barrister Chukwuemeka Nwokoro, issued a strongly worded press statement on Saturday, exposing what the party described as a desperate plot by the senator to manufacture evidence of expulsion in a bid to legitimise his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Nwokoro said the claim by Abaribe that he was sacked since September 2025 was a deliberate lie told on the floor of the Senate to deceive lawmakers and circumvent constitutional provisions on defection. “Senator Abaribe has started secret movements, trying to recruit people who are no longer members of the party — those who were either suspended or had resigned — to come together and produce a letter purportedly stating that he was sacked in September 2025,” the statement read.

The APGA spokesperson stressed that this forged document was meant to support the senator’s story before the Senate on Tuesday or Wednesday, adding that the party had uncovered the moves within the past 48 hours. He warned those allegedly recruited: “Any move which could bring embarrassment to the party should be immediately stopped or they would face the consequences.”

NaijaChoice News gathered that the controversy erupted after Abaribe joined other senators in announcing his defection to the ADC during plenary last week. Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other leaders immediately raised objections, citing Section 68(1) of the 1999 Constitution, which permits defection only in cases of party division or merger. Abaribe told the chamber he was expelled from APGA in September 2025 and even offered to read the supposed letter.

But APGA insists there was never any expulsion. “Let it be known that Senator Abaribe was neither sacked nor expelled from the party. Senator Abaribe resigned from the party on December 30, 2025, and submitted his resignation letter to the Ahiaba Ward 5 chairman of Obingwa Local Government Area,” Nwokoro stated.

The party argued that the timeline itself exposes the falsehood. “If Senator Abaribe had been sacked in September 2025 as he claimed, he would not have submitted his resignation letter in December 2025. Any person expelled from a party is no longer a member, yet after three months of the purported sack, he filed a resignation letter,” the statement added.

Nwokoro described APGA as “the most peaceful party” in Nigeria with “no element of crisis in any facet of the party’s leadership, let alone in the national leadership.” He said the party is using the medium to alert the general public, Abians and particularly the Senate that Abaribe’s claim was crafted to justify what the party called an “unconstitutional defection.”

This latest twist comes days after APGA had already demanded that Abaribe and another defecting federal lawmaker from the state vacate their seats in the National Assembly, arguing the mandates belong to the party.

The Senate has given Abaribe time to produce evidence of his alleged expulsion or risk having his Abia South seat declared vacant. As the drama unfolds, political watchers in Abia are closely monitoring whether the senator will present the purported sack letter or if the alleged forgery plot will further complicate his position.

APGA maintains it remains united and focused on delivering good governance to the people of Abia, free from the distractions of internal crisis that Abaribe has tried to paint.