Obi encouraged APGA defectors — Umeh
MORE facts emerged, yesterday, on the recent defection of four
members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with the national chairman of APGA,
Chief Victor Umeh accusing the immediate past governor of Anambra State,
Mr. Peter Obi, of instigating the action.
Obi: I didn't create the crisis and Umeh: I will do my party job
Obi: I didn’t create the crisis and Umeh: I will do my party job
Addressing reporters at Aguleri, the home-town of Governor Willie
Obiano, Umeh said the former governor was the architect of the
defection.
“The plot of the defection was hatched by Obi and his
associates,” he stated, adding that “part of the group’s game-plan was
to go to the Presidency to say that APGA was not supporting Jonathan,
which is not true,” he said.
He described those who decamped
from APGA as election ticket hunters, noting that whenever they did not
get what they wanted from a party, they began to curse that party, and
urged them to leave APGA alone.
According to him, “APGA is
supporting Jonathan 100 per cent and has even set up a Non-Governmental
Organisation, NGO, called ‘Join Jonathan Journey, JJJ, which will be
launched in Awka next Wednesday.”
He also said the reason given
by Obi for resigning as the chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of
APGA was due to the new appointment he got from Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah as the
South East coordinator of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN.
According to the APGA chairman, APGA had wanted to inaugurate Obi as a
BoT chairman before leaving office as governor and that the party asked
him to provide a budget for the special convention to that effect.
Umeh regretted that the former governor dilly-dallied, apparently because he had made up his mind not to accept the role.
Umeh said: “With all our hearts, we wanted to make him the APGA BoT
chairman and leader of our party, but the issue was that because of the
leadership crisis experienced in the party then, he thought that my
leadership had come to an end and there was therefore no need to deal
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