Obilor Ogbonna, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia state, and the candidate of the party for Umuahia North constituency seat in the just-concluded House of Assembly election, has berated the Donatus Nwankpa-led state leadership of the party over its utterances against leaders of the party in the state.
DAILY POST had reported on Saturday, that the Abia state Publicity secretary of the APC, Comrade Benedict Godson, had vowed that the leadership of the party in the state will resist any move to reappoint Trade and Investment Minister, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, in the yet-to-be-inaugurated second term of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to the party’s spokesman, “Another issue is that this minister, is also from the same constituency with Nigeria’s ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Dr. Uzoma Elizabeth Ikechi Emenike, who also doesn’t do anything for the party after getting appointment with the platform of APC”.
But reacting to the allegations in an interview with newsmen at the NUJ press centre, Umuahia on Sunday, Ogbonna said, ” Every Abian will tell you that in the last elections, No one campaigned more than High Chief Ikechi Emenike in Abia State and he did so in company of his amiable wife : Ambassador Uzoma Ikechi Emenike who was fully on ground to accompany him on most of the tours. This is apart from the numerous elaborate meetings and political gatherings he hosted in his Umukabia, Umuahia country home. How then could a journeyman Ben Godson arrive at a conclusion that Ambassador Emenike did not contribute to the fortunes of the Party in Abia State. By the way, when did Ben Godson and his sponsors begin to love President Muhammad Buhari and support APC?
“It is on record that when High Chief Emenike mobilized visionary Abians to support the candidature of President Muhammad Buhari, Ben Godson and some of his sponsors were agents of Governor Rochas Okorocha. Now that Governor Rochas Okorocha is self inflictedly politically down, they have found a new anchor in Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who not only campaigned against President Muhammad Buhari in 2015 but said numerous unprintable things about him. Such characters and their sponsors should certainly not be taken seriously.
“Abia politics in particular and its development in general will continue to be a mirage until the likes of Ben Godson and his sponsors are told in clear language that “politics is not synonymous with criminality and that politics is about decency, truthfulness, progress and should not be a meal ticket for charlatans.”
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