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| Peter Obi |
FORMER Governor Peter Obi’s recent
defection from All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, is still causing ripples, with Governor Willie Obiano’s senior
special assistant on inter party affairs, Chief Ben Obi saying yesterday that
the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu knew that the former
governor would dump APGA.
Addressing reporters in Awka, Ben
Obi, who also served as SSA to former Governor Obi said that it was in his
presence that the late Ikemba Nnewi asked Obi three times if he would leave
APGA to which the former governor vowed that such a thing would never happen.
He said: “I saw his defection coming
because I worked with him as SSA on inter party affairs and throughout the
period he was in court fighting to get his mandate back.
“We grew up together and attended
the same school and I knew that Obi is very crafty, which sometimes fail him.
“During his tenure, we were at the
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha when Ojukwu fainted. I had to carry him
in my Hummer Jeep to the nearby Waterside Hospital for treatment and as I was
singing a song to him, Obi came in. At that point, Ikemba raised his head
and asked Obi if he was sure he would not leave APGA and he answered yes.
Ojukwu repeated the question two times and this made Obi to swear with a bible
he was holding that he would never leave APGA to any other party.
“Ojukwu asked this the question
because he suspected that the former governor would dump APGA as soon as he
(Ojukwu) was no more. It was unfortunate that he he did not keep to that
promise.”
He (Obi) once said that leaving APGA
to PDP was like going to Iraq, adding that by eventually joining PDP, he is in
Iraq and he knew the consequences.
He also said that it was unfortunate
that the former governor castigated Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State for
leaving APGA when he too was planning to do the same thing as soon as he left
office.
Obi also said that it was because of
the former governor that APGA lost all the senatorial seats in 2011,
particularly that of Anambra Central contested by the late Professor Dora
Akunyili.
He said further: “He did not want
Akunyili to be in the senate because of his own ambition of going to the senate
in 2015. If he wanted Akunyili to go to senate, why did he take her to the Head
Bridge Drug market, Onitsha to campaign knowing the role Akunyili played in
fighting fake drug producers in that market as the director general of NAFDAC?
“Besides, Head Bridge is not even
part of Anambra Central and he took her there just to mess her up and he got
what he wanted because we were stoned by the traders who were still bearing
grudges against Akunyili.”
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