Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has been urged
to forget actualizing his second term bid on the ticket of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) next year.
APGA Acting National Chairman, Ozo Nwabueze Mario Okafor (Okpoche
Ngene), declared that the party will not field Obiano for the election
as long as he hangs on to the sacked National Chairman of APGA, Dr
Victor Ike Oye.
At his maiden press briefing since members of the National Working
Committee (NWC) removed Oye from office, he said: “…We have no interest
in who replaces Dr Oye. The party elders, the stakeholders and the
teeming members of the party can choose whoever they deemed fit. Even
the National Leader can choose whoever he feels he would be comfortable
with, even if it is his brother. Once it is ratified, we have no problem
with it. But we can no longer work with the suspended chairman. Any
move to retain him simply means the end is close for the party”.
Oye was recently suspended at the party’s meeting in Abuja. Since
then, Governor Obiano has tried to broker peace without success.
Okafor insisted that for Obiano to get the party’s ticket, “Oye must go.”
He admitted that Obiano, who is Chairman, APGA Board of Trustees
(BoT) and National Leader, called a meeting to resolve the crisis and
appealed to all parties to sheathe their swords.
“We had a meeting with the Governor who did all within his powers
to see the resolution of the crisis. But while we were still trying to
seek the way forward, the suspended National Chairman went haywire and
called the people who legally and constitutionally suspended him
dissidents, rebels, renegades. He said we were settled with spaghetti,
egusi soup and money so as to abandon the course we have taken. We
actually took serious exception to that. And therefore, we have come to
a painful decision to enlighten the public on the crisis. We regret
doing this, having taken all necessary steps to ensure that all issues
concerning this be treated within the party but Dr Oye has made things
practically impossible,” Okafor said.
Meanwhile, a renowned prophet, Iyke Uzukwu has asked Obiano to start packing his things from the Government House.
Uzukwu, who is the spiritual head of Soul Revival Ministries,
said yesterday that “whoever tells Obiano that his office is not vacant
is lying.”
He said: “I prophesied about President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory
and even sent words to former President Goodluck Jonathan not to run but
he didn’t listen. Last year, I prophesied that things would get bad as
inflation will rise.”
The cleric continued: “I want to give Obiano a piece of advice. I
have been warning him in the past three years to beware of sycophants;
if anyone tells him that his office is not vacant, that individual is
deceiving him. He should not leave APGA because if he ever tries that he
should forget his re-election bid.
Many problems will still crop up in APGA but he should stay and
tackle the problems. Again, he has problems with a lot of politicians.
He should make peace with Peter Obi, Ifeanyi Ubah and others. If he
makes peace with these ones, there are chances he may secure another
term.”
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