- * Says Gov's Comment Accusing Non-Anambra Persons For Sponsoring Unrest Vindicates Uba, APC Guber Flagbearer
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation (SAUGCO) has asked the Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, and his APGA supporters to immediately tender an apology to Senator Andy Uba, the governorship flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly maligning him on the issue of current insecurity in the state.
This demand came on the heels of media reports quoting governor Obiano's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Chief Ifeatu Obiokoye, claiming that the insecurity situation currently rocking Anambra was the handiwork of individuals outside the state. This position is contrary to the earlier allegation by the governor's aide, Chief Obiokoye, that "certain individuals" in Anambra state were behind the violence and killings in the state.
Obiokoye spoke while explaining why Governor Willy Obiano failed to attend last Tuesday's regional parley on the deteriorating security situation in Anambra state.
He said, "What people are saying goes to no issue in the first instance because it is public knowledge that those doing the killings are not from Anambra state and no Anambra person would go to this extent.
"These people are from outside Anambra state and you expect the governor to be holding meetings with them on security challenges which those people are executing?," Obiokoye had said.
Arising from the Political Adviser's open confession that no Anambra person, high or low, is involved in the disturbances ravaging in Anambra state, the Andy Campaign Organization (SAUGCO) said in a statement on Friday by its Director, Media, and Publicity, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, that "it is our contention that he ought to have taken the moral high ground by going ahead to offer unreserved apologies to our Candidate, Senator Andy Uba who the Obiano camp had strenuously tried to malign.
"Conventional wisdom dictates that it is counterproductive to seek to play politics with issues of security. This is so because in attempting to politicize any security challenge, the real culprits would be left with a leeway to continue to evade detection.
"Now, with the open admission that Senator Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba is not in any way involved in the ugly spectacle going on in Awka, the honorable thing to do is, offer unreserved apologies to him.
"We have always maintained that issues of security are everyone's call, hence our relentless call on Governor Obiano to step forward and take charge," Hon. Ogene said. NNL.
