Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has said at no time did he beg son of late Biafra warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu to join the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA.
Ojukwu Jnr had before the Anambra State Governorship election surprisingly joined the All Progressive Congress, APC.
According to Oliver Okpala, Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Strategic Communications, Obiano said he never at any time approached Ojukwu jnr to come back to APGA
Part of the statement stated “It is a matter of pure pathetic fallacy for the Junior Ikemba to say that Governor Obiano is lobbying him to come back to APGA which he claimed he won’t accept.”
The Governor’s aide wondered on what ground anybody would ever lobby Ojukwu Jnr 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 a member.
“In fact nobody knew that he was a member of the party, so on what grounds was he relevant to the fold?”
He said Ojukwu in his lifetime was the champion of the struggle for the rights and emancipation of his people, standing firm with his Igbo brothers and sisters and never betraying their cause.
He said, for anybody associated with the great Ikemba to work against the political interest of Igbo 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 stated.
Okpala said it was unfortunate that Ojukwu’s son described an elder and the Governor of his State as one playing juvenile and local politics, when Ojukwu himself was a man known for respect to constituted authorities.