Fraction Between Obiano And Bianca May Sink APGA –  Obasi

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Former Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Jerry Obasi, has predicted that the friction between the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, and the wife of the late Igbo leader, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, may collapse APGA completely if the feud is not resolved soonest. 

He said that the party has not been fair to Mrs Ojukwu irrespective of her contributions to the party. He also spoke on other issues of national concern. Excerpts:

Obisa in an interview says “Well, the latest has to do with Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s fourth posthumous birthday anniversary at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam where Her Excellency, Bianca Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu espoused and made known to the world that the embodiment of APGA and her image which is Ojukwu has left APGA completely and I totally agree with her because the governor, Chief Willie Obiano, and all the government apparatus: the National Chairman and a large chunk of the members of the Board of Trustees could not come.

They only sent the innocent man, the Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke to come. There is no other way to disrespect a man than that expressed by Governor Willie Obiano. Before now, hitherto, I have been against bringing in strange elements from nowhere to come and run APGA. Even when Chief (Sir) Victor Umeh was at the helms of an affair, I was critically against that. I have two major arguments.

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One on the national chairmanship consistently remaining in Anambra as if there will no longer be other persons elsewhere to man the party. Second, the way and manner political nomads are brought in from everywhere to come and hold affairs in APGA.

For instance, the present Deputy National Chairman (South), Uchenna Okogbue, even though court has abrogated their leadership through the abrogation of the convention, wanted to become the local government deputy chairman. Then he came down toward chairman.

But the former National Chairman, Chief (Sir) Victor Umeh, now raised him above everybody now to become the Deputy National Chairman (South). It is an insult to everybody. And I am happy today that everybody is suffering from this same thing because whatever pleasant place Umeh had wanted to be, he is not in that place today.

But people like us who have been shouting; like I have consistently been doing, we are seen as the black sheep in the house. But today, the black sheep has become the precious stone; because all these later prophets in APGA who are coming back to start making noise, they are all cowards because when men were men, where were they?

When the voice of men was needed, they were nowhere to be found. But because we are in crossfire now, everybody now is a tiger. Everybody wants to become National Chairman of APGA.

Even the lame wants to be National Chairman in APGA; even the blind wants to be National Chairman in APGA. The deaf and dump want to be National Chairman in APGA. Even people who are suffering curses from their communities want to be National Chairman in APGA. It is unfortunate. So, the party is actually in a quandary.

The party is facing extreme challenge because the governorship election that will take place in Anambra; I don’t pray that APGA will lose that election, but with the way its leadership under Governor Obiano’s watch is conducting itself, I have my fears.

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It is sad and unfortunate because further litigations will spring up except the right things are done. Unless the right things are not done, there will consistently be complaints and arguments within the groups in APGA.

It has deepened the crisis. It has deepened the argument. Dirty leanings are washed in the public; names are called, arguments are raised, curses are also rained, abuses are also rained, quarrels have ensured to the point of market square magnitude such that we have not seen within the political milieu.

It is only in APGA that such things are being seen. And for the umpteenth time, even though I am not holding brief for Her Excellency, Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, but the kind of treatment that has been meted to her in APGA is the worst of its kind. I have not seen that kind of treatment before.

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People should reap where they sowed. People should benefit from their farmyards because people enjoy politics. There are people in APGA and nobody can be more Catholic than the Pope. So, she should be given her due place in APGA.

At least, she should be among the persons in the high table to discuss who takes what in APGA. But today, even when she asks to be given from the fall of the cake which is meant for her to share, she is not given any.

What is now left for the patient dog? The patient dog which eats the fattest bone, in APGA, they eat both the fattest bone and the patient dog itself which has been waiting. I have never seen such a thing like I have seen in APGA in my entire political history and my entire political involvement.

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