Obiano Blasts Ojukwu’s Son, We Don’t Need You In APGA

Governor elect of Anambra State, Willie
Obiano, has debunked a claim that he asked
Emeka Ojukwu, the son of former Biafra
leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,
to return to the All Progressives Grand
Alliance ( APGA ).
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.”