Playing Both Sides: Party Chairman Kingsley Onunogbu and the Internal Sabotage of Abia APC

ONN Umuahia 18.02.2026

Beyond Rhetoric: How Double Dealing Has Reduced Party Leadership to a Tool of Personal Gain

There comes a point in the life of a political party when silence becomes complicity. That moment has arrived for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State.

At the centre of the party’s persistent instability stands Kingsley Onunogbu, the State Chairman, an office meant to unify, stabilise, and protect the party, but which has instead become a clearing house for intrigue, contradiction, and calculated division.

From Party Leader to Political Saboteur

The duty of a state chairman is simple and sacred: hold the party together. Yet under the current leadership, Abia APC has become more fractured, more suspicious, and more internally hostile than at any point in recent memory. This is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of a chairman who thrives on chaos, plays factions against one another, and converts party authority into personal leverage.

While preaching unity in public, the chairman has mastered the art of quietly undermining the same leaders he courts behind closed doors. One day he attacks legacy figures; the next, he weaponises the ambitions of younger leaders. The goal is never reform, it is control.

Double Rhetoric, Dirty Hands

The most dangerous politician is not the loud opponent, but the smiling insider who profits from confusion. Publicly, the chairman denounces powerful figures as obstacles to progress. Privately, he negotiates with them, borrows from them, and uses their resources to fight internal wars.

This is not leadership. It is political duplicity elevated to doctrine.

The result? A party chairman who owes explanations to everyone and loyalty to no one, except himself.

Lawmakers, Deceived or Complicit?

Even more shocking to party members is the role played by some elected lawmakers who have either failed to see through this deception or chosen to ignore it. By lending legitimacy to a chairman who openly destabilises the party, they have helped weaken the very platform that produced them.

Grassroots members are watching. Elders are watching. And patience has worn thin.

The ₦100 Million Scandal That Won’t Go Away

No issue better captures this moral collapse than the unresolved ₦100 million party fund, publicly acknowledged as received for APC affairs barely two months ago, in December 2025. Today, the same party is paralysed by distrust, while its chairman speaks of morality and constitutionalism.

Abia APC elders are no longer asking politely. They are demanding accountability. Refund the money. Account for the funds and step aside.

Party money is not a personal war chest. It is not a bargaining chip. And it is certainly not a tool for settling private political scores.

A Chairman Who Divides, Then Plays Victim

After lighting the fire, the chairman now claims he wants to “leave crises behind.” Yet even as he speaks of stepping away, he vows to use party structures to block specific individuals, proving that his obsession is not party progress but personal vendetta.

This contradiction exposes the truth: the crisis is the strategy.

Time for a Reckoning

Abia APC does not need sermons. It needs surgery.

The party needs a state chairman who does not trade in secrets, borrow against the party’s future, or pit leaders against one another to remain relevant. It needs leadership that understands that authority comes from trust, not manipulation.

Until Kingsley Onunogbu is held to account, financially, morally, and politically, the APC in Abia State will remain under siege from within.

And history is unforgiving to parties that ignore internal rot.

The question before Abia APC is no longer whether there is a crisis.

The question is whether the party has the courage to end it.