Governor, Willie Obiano
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has
debunked a claim that he pestered Emeka Ojukwu to return to the All
Progressives Grand Alliance.
Emeka is a son of the late Igbo leader,
Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu.
Ojukwu had, on November 15, dumped APGA for the
All Progressives Congress.
He recently claimed that Obiano had been lobbying
for him to return to APGA, while also describing the Anambra governor as
playing “infantile and local politics.”
But Obiano said Ojukwu lied against him,
stressing that he had never talked to the late Igbo leader’s son since he
joined the APC.
Obiano said he had nothing to gain if Ojukwu
returned to APGA, adding that the late warlord’s son had no political value in
Anambra State.
The Anambra governor’s response was contained in
a statement by Obiano’s media aide, Oliver Okpala.
The statement partly read, “It is a matter of
pure pathetic fallacy for the younger Ikemba to say that Governor Obiano is
lobbying him to come back to APGA.
“The governor wondered on what grounds anybody
would ever lobby Ojukwu to return to APGA while he never held any important
position to warrant being described as a stakeholder or a leader of the party
when he was a member of APGA. In fact, nobody knew that he was a member of the
party.”
Obiano described Ojukwu’s son as a sad irony of
his father who “in his lifetime, was the champion of the struggle for the
rights and emancipation of his people, standing firm with his Igbo brothers and
sisters and never betraying their cause.”
The statement added, “I wonder what the Great
Ikemba would be thinking when his son openly denied the only political entity
which he left to unite the Igbo under a political umbrella.
“It is unfortunate that Ojukwu’s son described an
elder and the governor of his state as one playing juvenile and local politics
when the late Ojukwu respected constituted authorities.
“We urge Ojukwu Jnr to show respect to the
governor and continue his sojourn with the APC rather than make untrue remarks
about the governor.”
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