Ojukwu’s defection to APC: Good Riddance to bad rubbish, says Obiano’s Aide

By Ovasa Ogaga,

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The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Strategic Communications to the Governor of Anambra State, Prince Oliver Okpala made these assertions in response to Ojukwu Junior’s statement against Governor Willie Obiano over his (Ojukwu) defection  to the APC.

Ojukwu Jr dumped APGA for the All Progressives Congress on 15th November, 2017 during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Anambra State for the grand finale campaign of the APC candidate for the November 18 Anambra governorship election, Dr. Tony Nwoye.

On Monday, he spoke to journalists in Awka where he claimed he was being lobbied by Obiano to return to the party.

He vowed not to return to APGA as he was toeing his Late Father’s footsteps by joining APC.

Mr Ojukwu also asked Governor Willie Obiano to stop  disturbing his peace on the matter, describing the governor’s knocks on him on the issue as “infantile and ignorance of the working of  Nigerian politics.”

However, Okpala in a swift reaction on Wednesday, affirmed that he (Ojukwu) is politically inconsequential in state, zonal and national politics as he has no base.

According to Okpala, it is now very clear from his actions that Ojukwu Junior cannot claim to have the same sound intellectual background or pedigree with the late Ikemba even though he is a direct descendant of the Ikemba.

The Media Aide described Ojukwu’s claim that Governor Obiano is lobbying him to come back to APGA  as pure pathetic fallacy.

“One wonders on what ground anybody would ever lobby him 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 in APGA. In fact nobody knew that he was a member of the party, so on what grounds was he relevant to the fold? “

“Though too many people have linked their paternity to the late Ikemba because of his greatness, only the Late leader can say who is who”.

“In his lifetime, the Great Ikemba was the champion of the struggle for the rights and emancipation of his people, standing firm with his Igbo brothers and sisters, never betraying their cause.  But for anybody associated with the great Ikemba to work against the political interest of his people is to say the least an act of monumental betrayal and grand treachery”.

“I wonder what the Great Ikemba would be thinking when his supposed son openly denied the only political entity which he left for us the Igbos  as a unifying political umbrella.  Ojukwu would no doubt shudder in his grave”, Okpala said.

Mr Okpala, however, likened Ojukwu’s defection to APC from his Father’s party APGA to the betrayal of Jesus Christ in the Bible by his Apostles

“Wonders they say will never end.   Even though Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible and Peter denied the Master three times before the cock crew,   no sane human being would want to be associated with these negative and unworthy stance in the Bible”.

“From the statements and actions of the junior Ojukwu it is now very clear that he did not quite grow under the guidance of the late Ikemba who as a Senior military personnel respected constituted authorities  and seniority despite his greatness and wisdom”.

Okpala wondered how  a son of the late Ikemba can describe his Elder and Governor of his State as one playing juvenile and local politics?

“Is he aware that all the major political parties in the country were made up of sectional political organisations representing the interest of their people which they  used as a bargaining instrument for the  formation  or integration into  national political  parties?”

“Since the junior Ojukwu has remained as an infant without complete knowledge of the great philosophies of his late  father, he should reach  out to his elders to educate him properly on the outstanding qualities of the Ikemba so  that he will quickly  refrain from  using mercantile politics in destroying   the outstanding legacies his late father left for posterity.

Mr Okpala further advised that Mr Ojukwu should as a matter of utmost urgency desist from using gutter language against Governor Obiano    to avoid letting the world know about the questionable nature of his parental background and claim.

“Let sanity prevail and let there be political decorum.  A word they say is enough for the wise.  No one is interested in accepting and holding on to a political liability like Ojukwu junior. His sojourn to APC is indeed good riddance to bad rubbish”.