Former Nigeria’s ambassador to
Spain and widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has opened up on
how the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, failed to sustain the
legacies of the late Igbo leader in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Bianca said Obi rode on the wings
of the late Ikemba Nnewi to the government house on the platform of APGA but he
had abandoned it.
She took her anger to a new level
by laying curse on her late husband’s protégée, thus asking ‘history to judge
him harshly’.
He told Sun that, “APGA’s
political credo revolves essentially around those principles championed by
Ojukwu in the Ahiara Declaration which constitutes the benchmarks of a
well-ordered society.
“Ikemba envisaged an
administrative model with a dynamic policy for industrialisation which
concentrates on the employment of primary products in various domestic
manufactures, a government which creates possibilities for citizens with talent
in business and civil administration, agriculture, technology, trade and
commerce, to mention but a few, to fulfil themselves and receive their due
reward and appreciation in service to the state.
“It is simple. I maintain that
Peter Obi betrayed Dim Ojukwu, and tried to destroy APGA for his own selfish interests.
He has continued to undermine Ojukwu’s personality and recently, he has gone
ahead to desecrate his legacy. From relative obscurity, Obi was brought into
national prominence when the leader, Ojukwu, through his party APGA, offered
him an opportunity and platform upon which he ran and became governor of
Anambra State.
“Ojukwu sacrificed so much and
laboured for him to become governor. He (Ojukwu) was fiercely protective of him
and helped him overcome the various challenges that confronted him. Peter Obi
had a difficult first tenure and stepped on so many toes that the majority of
our party faithful were adamant that he should not be nominated for a second
tenure. Yet Ojukwu stood by him when it mattered most, jeopardised his health
by traversing all the local governments in a rigorous campaign on his behalf
and begged the people of Anambra State to grant him a last wish by returning
Obi for a second term.
“This feat was achieved for the
first time in Anambra State’s history on 6th February 2010. Peter Obi swore to
Ojukwu, upon his honour, that he would never abandon APGA; that he would quit
politics or die; rather than leave APGA, and that he would preserve this legacy
as a potent voice and rallying point for Ndigbo.
“History will judge him (Obi)
harshly because the truth of the matter is that it is his pathological fear of
political redundancy and oblivion that is now driving him dangerously close to
the precipice from where he will soon commit political suicide. The people of
Anambra State cannot be hoodwinked as they are determined not to indulge him
with a third tenure by installing his candidate as governor.”
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