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Labaran Maku, former minister of information in the federal government of the peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged national secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Maku, who was also the Nasarawa state governorship candidate of APGA, was elected at the convention of the party, which held at the Women Development Centre in Awka, capital of Anambra state, on Saturday.

Victor Ikechukwu has also been elected as the new chairman of the party and Ifeatu Okoye, national publicity secretary; while Chuks Nwoga is the new youth leader and Obiagu Ezinne, the national women leader.

The APGA leadership has been the subject of a tussle between Maxi Okwu and Victor Umeh, who contested for a senatorial seat in Anambra state in the last election.

Maku defected from the PDP after losing the party’s ticket to Yusuf Agabi in December 2014 and he maintained silence until APGA unveiled him as its governorship candidate in Nasarawa state.

During his presentation in January, he said he left the PDP and embraced APGA in order to seek justice​.

He also said he was the most qualified of all the candidates to become governor.

“The struggle to ensure that I did not become candidate of APGA is emanating from Government House in Lafia. There is no place they have not gone, they have threatened APGA leadership in the state,” he had said.

“They know, more than anybody, that when it comes to vision, to leadership, to capacity to express that vision and mobilise people, I have the capacity and that is why they are all jittery.”

Maku succeeded late Dora Akunyili, who resigned from the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan to contest the Anambra central senatorial district, under the same APGA.