A desperate attempt by the embattled leadership of the executive and legislative arms of Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, to shore up their battered image by way of passage of confidence vote by Ward Councillors in the council has reportedly hit the rocks, following the staging of Walkout from a meeting called for that purpose by the councillors.

According to comptent sources within the venue of the meeting held at a popular hotel located along the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Ngor Okpala, Hon Chibuike Agbugba and Hon Chika Ibekwe, Leader of the Legislative Council and Chairperson of the LGA, had hurriedly convened the meeting with the aim of securing confidence vote from the councillors, to counter the ongoing image  battering they’ve faced in the wake of the coming into the open of allegations leveled against Gov Hope Uzodimma by the Council Leader. 

Recall that only on Sunday, June 22, 2025, a voice note  from a telephone conversation between Hon  Agbugba and unnamed suspected supporter was relayed at an emergency general assembly meeting of Obiangwu Autonomous Community, held at the community’s town hall. 

In the leaked clip the embattled councillor was heard telling the  Attempt to Secure Confidence Vote Crumbles as  Ngor Okpala Councillors Stage Walkout on  Chairperson, Legislative Leader

A desperate attempt by the embattled leadership of the executive and legislative arms of Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, to shore up their battered image by way of passage of confidence vote by Ward Councillors from the council, has reportedly hit the rocks, following the staging of a Walkout from a meeting called for that purpose, by the councillors.

According to comptent sources who were  at  the venue of the meeting held at a popular hotel located along the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Ngor Okpala, Hon Chibuike Agbugba and Hon Chika Ibekwe, Leader of the Legislative Council and Chairperson of the LGA, had hurriedly convened the meeting with the aim of securing confidence vote from the councillors, to counter the ongoing image  battering they are facing in the wake of the coming into the open of the allegation leveled against Gov Hope Uzodimma by the Council Leader. 

Recall that last Sunday, June 22, 2025, a voice note  from a telephone conversation between Hon  Agbugba and unnamed suspected supporter was relayed at an emergency general assembly meeting of Obiangwu Autonomous Community, held at the community’s town hall. 

In the leaked clip the embattled councillor was heard telling the person he was discussing with that the Governor Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma had told him and his colleagues from the 27 local government areas of the state,that he had ceded Owerri Zone 2027 APC Senate ticket to Prince Alex Mbata,and  also instructed them to work with him. 

Angered by that action which they perceived as gross betrayal of trust, provocative and capable of creating crisis in the party in Owerri zone, the community had strongly condemned the act, and further called for disciplinary action against him. 

 It is not only the people of Obiangwu community that the revelation had drawn their ire since it broke, as many stakeholders in APC Ngor Okpala and the council generally have seriously being criticising Legislative Council Leader, and the chairperson of the LGA over the issue. 

The flopped meeting of yesterday,

therefore, was one of the emergency steps allegedly taken by the duo to see how to salvage their sinking image and integrity, but unfortunately it failed woefully. 

It was gathered that during the session after briefing his colleagues on why the meeting was convened, Hon Agbugba had passionately appealed to his colleagues to sign a document  to pass vote of confidence on him and the chairperson. 

However,  the councillors bluntly refused to sign the document, even after the embattled leader had begged them with teary eyes to, for the sake of his wife who is critically ill, help him retrieve his sinking image and political fortune, by signing the document, the lawmaker’s remained adamant, and later staged a Walkout when the pressure became unbearable. 

It was gathered that their main grouse for refusing his overtures was that they were displeased with his betrayal of the trust his office bestowed on him, as well as the mistreatment they have faced in his hand and that of the chairperson since they were sworn into office.

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