Chieftain of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Ebonyi State branch, Chief Egwu Chima, says the party in the state is split into two factions shared between him and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, former Abia State governor.

He explained that his own bloc is led by Chief Donatus Ezeogo Aja, while "Onu's group is headed by his fellow Knight of Saint John, who has been in the position for 11 years as if there is no other human being in Ebonyi."

Chima, former National Students Youth Leader of Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), said politics was about concern and sustenance of followership, stressing, "Though some of the 50 political parties could look diminutive, they have potentials to constitute one or two features or characteristics; nobody is too big that he cannot be destroyed and nobody is too small that he cannot constitute a danger."

The ANPP stalwart currently Ebony State Commissioner for Inter-party Dialogue in the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration, said his office was part of the fallout of the Unity Government policy of the current administration, "that is the machinery set out to act as a catalyst, to promote inter-party harmony, pro-active understanding.

"I wouldn't have accepted the commissionership but for the integrity of the Governor Martin Elechi-led administration."

As to why there exists no plausible party opposition in the state, Chima, an engineer in Aerospace Survey, pointed out that in South Africa, they had a common enemy identified as the Whiteman colonialists for which reason the have the ANC to fight.

"In Nigeria, we don't have one common enemy but we have a common opponent, the military, so we tolerate so many things as to avoid heating up the polity for them to come back."

He posited that with the growth of democracy, opposition would get stronger, pointing out that in Ebonyi State, there could hardly be such anticipated opposition till the next 10 or 20 years when men that can stand to prosecute individual visions as opposing a seating government could have arisen.