A pressure Group, Abia for Genuine Change and Good Governance (AGCGG)
has warned the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) to be wary of
the current overture being made to the chieftain of the party, Dr.
Ogbonnaya Onu by the out-going governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore
Orji, saying the move was meant to curry unmerited favour from the
leadership of APC.In a statement, the Co-ordinator of the group, Olu Ifegwu Nnamdi, said it was amazing that within a space of one week, Governor Orji had named the state secretariat after Dr. Onu and also caused the Abia State University to award an Honorary Doctorate degree (honoris causa) to the former governor.
While saying the group was not against honouring the first civilian governor of the state for having served the state meritoriously, Nnamdi said the timing and motive had made the whole exercise look cheap and laughable. Nnamdi wondered why it took the out-going governor so long to realise that Dr. Onu as the first civilian governor of the state deserved some respect and recognition.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com..
According to Nnamdi, “for the past eight years, Chief Orji has been governor of the state, he never realised that Dr. Ogbonnaya was the former governor of the state and deserved some level of recognition and respect until now that the APC, which Dr. Onu is a chieftain had won the presidential election and he is being positioned for the post of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).”The AGCGG co-ordinator recalled that it was the same Dr. Onu, who Governor Orji is now trying to carry to high heavens, that he (Gov Orji) denied usage of the state-owned media outfits and any public space in Abia including the Enyimba Stadium when the APC chieftain came with the likes of the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and other bigwigs to campaign in Abia few months back.“Could you imagine, during the electioneering few months back, this same Dr. Onu, who Governor Orji now wants to carry to high heavens because he is being positioned as the SGF, could not be allowed the use of public places in Abia when he came on campaign tour of the state with the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Governor Rochas Okorocha and other chieftains of APC.”
Nnamdi equally recalled that it was during the same campaign period when Governor Orji denied Dr. Onu and other chieftains of APC access to public places in Abia that (Eze) Isaac Ikonne gave a chieftaincy title to Buhari and the state government lambasted and even split the kingdom of the royal father for his recognition and blessing of the then APC presidential candidate.The AGCGG leader said again in February this year during the burial of the late Bishop of Aba Diocese, Most Revd. V.V Ezeonyia that Governor Orji came in close contact with Dr. Onu, who was at the burial ceremony in the premises of the CKC, Aba, but that he shunned the former governor and pretended as if he never knew him.
“If all these things could happen within this year and indeed shortly before the presidential election, why this sudden change in the out-going governor’s perception of Dr. Onu?”
Describing Dr.Onu as the Biblical stone rejected by builders and which has become the head of the corner, Nnamdi said it was laughable that it took Orji the presidential election which the APC won, to suddenly realise that Dr. Onu, who was being touted as the SGF, should be recognised as the first governor of the state and be so honoured.
He said the governor’s sudden and present hobnob with Dr. Onu, who he had had no regard for in the past was for the former governor to make his defection to APC easy, earlier attempts having been rebuffed.
Nnamdi warned APC leaders not to allow this be, stressing that all the political parties including the PPA, APGA and later PDP which the out-going governor had passed through had some ugly tales to tell.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that Governor Orji is making frantic efforts to dump PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan, who has supported him by turning a blind eye to all the wrongs that happened in the state in these past years, Orji now wants to go to the APC for cover.
“We are not against any move by any politician, but what we are only saying is that those who have put PDP in its present mess should remain to salvage it. APC should be wary of the political ‘Ebolas’ as not to contaminate it with the ‘disease’ presently plaguing PDP.”
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