…Asks
Obi to also apologise to Ngige
Embattled national chairman of the All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA), Sir Victor Umeh, has stated that he has no regrets for
championing the cause of justice that saw former national chairman of the party
Chief Chekwas Okorie out of the way.
Umeh, who was reacting to the recent apology tendered by the
factional interim chairman of APGA, Maxi Okwu, to Chief Okorie, insisted that
the former chairman of the party was sacked for betraying the mandate of APGA
in the 2003 guber election in Anambra State.
Umeh dismissed Okorie’s advice that he should “repent and ask
for forgiveness,” stressing that “the APGA leadership will never apologise to
Okorie because it never did anything wrong to him; he was punished for his
breach of the APGA Constitution by working against the party.
“The truth will always remain constant despite the unsteady
character of Mr. Peter Obi. I will not begin to recant from a just struggle I
led the party through that produced the first governor for APGA and
subsequently a second governor in Imo State.
There was no injustice done to Chekwas at all. He betrayed the
party and the party, including Obi, came together and sanctioned him.
“Our leadership remains convinced that the actions we took were
both morally and legally right. It was that action that gave APGA the life it
has enjoyed but being taken away by Governor Obi through his wicked activities
against the party. “The visit of Maxi Okwu to Chekwas Okorie does not come to
me as a surprise because both were birds of the same feather in APGA.
They were both expelled by the party in 2005. It is, therefore,
not unexpected that Maxi Okwu, illegally brought back by Obi, would go for his
former boss who suffered the same punishment with him. “The only tragedy in the
unfolding comedy is the shamelessness of Governor Obi who accused the duo of
sabotaging his mandate which we fought stoutly to defend in court.
For him to sponsor the same characters and also approve that
apology be tendered to Chekwas Okorie for the injustice done to him is the
irony of the whole situation. The only lesson from this unfortunate comedy is
that Governor Obi is exposing himself to Nigerians as a man who does not have
character.
“Since he has sponsored Maxi to apologise to Chekwas we expect
him to also apologise to Chris Ngige for ‘stealing’ his mandate. We had to
fight Dr. Ngige who was declared governor-elect by INEC through the courts to
retrieve the mandate for Obi. So if he is now apologising to those who colluded
with Ngige, we expect him to go and apologise to Ngige. It means what we fought
for was also wrong.
“Obi is saying in effect that he didn’t win the election. All
the efforts to get Ngige out of the way were also wrong. So we are expecting
Obi to lead his kinsmen and apologise to Ngige at Alor that he was wrong to
have challenged the declaration as the winner of April 19, 2003 governorship
election.
I want to tell you that there is no convention or congresses of
APGA that will take place until 2015 when the tenure of the present executive
would lapse.”
Umeh dismissed Maxi Okwu as a man on an illegal journey in APGA
and who knew he had no authority to do anything in the name of APGA, saying
that was why he was running round the circle.
Source:
Sun
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