The spirit of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
may have risen to arrest the protracted crisis rocking the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the leader of the Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph
Uwazuruike, has begun moves to reconcile gladiators in the crisis.
Serious crisis had erupted in APGA shortly after the burial of
Ojukwu, who was its national leader in March last year, when the leaders
of the party urged the National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh to
restructure the party.
Umeh, who saw the demand as a subtle move to remove him as national
chairman refused to restructure the party, which led to the
factionalisation of the party and subsequently series of court cases.
But as the Anambra election scheduled to hold in November draws near,
Uwazuruike, who Ojukwu adopted as his son while he was alive and
anointed the new Igbo leader, was said to have decided to help restore
peace in APGA, seen as the major legacy Ikemba left for Ndigbo.
According to a reliable source, the MASSOB leader had held secret
meetings with the members of the reconciliation committee set up by Umeh
in his Owerri residence.
Daily Sun also gathered that he had reached out to
Governor Peter Obi and Ojukwu’s widow, Amb. Bianca, who are now said to
be amenable to peace. Also Daily Sun gathered that Uwazuruike had held
another meeting with Umeh in Owerri just as Chief Emeka Ojukwu Jnr will
be meeting with him today also in Owerri.
The two meetings between Uwazuruike, Umeh and Emeka were said to be
geared towards reconciling them with Iyom Bianca, who is said to be
feeling the death of her husband more with the lingering APGA crisis.
Daily Sun also gathered that another meeting between
Bianca and Umeh had been fixed for June 10 at the late Ojukwu’s Enugu
residence after which all those involved in the crisis would be brought
to a round table and a resolution taken on how the party would go into
the Anambra election as one family.
Daily Sun also learnt that the Chairman, Board of
Trustees of APGA, Dr Tim Menakaya, had thrown his weight behind the
reconciliation by Uwazuruike and had called him from London to encourage
him in the new effort.
It was not clear what would be the fate of the parallel chairmen of
the party, Chief Umeh and Chief Maxi Okwu in this new effort as the two
of them were still in court, where they had gone to determine, who the
authentic chairman is.
It was also gathered that all the gladiators in the crisis had
realized that Ojukwu would be highly angry with them in his grave if
APGA failed to win in the upcoming Anambra governorship election, which
would spell doom for their political career.
When contacted on phone, Uwazuruike confirmed that there were moves
for reconciliation in the party, but could not give details. He,
however, said all involved in the crisis had agreed to reconcile as a
mark of respect to the late leader of the party, Ikemba.
This would be the second time the MASSOB leader would be helping
APGA, which his mentor Ojukwu passionately believed in, to hold sway in
the South-East having taken the Imo Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to
Ojukwu and Umeh where he was anointed APGA governorship candidate over
Chief Martin Agbaso in 2011.
source: daily sun
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