The Chairman of the United Progressives Party, Chief Chekwas Okorie, Friday, told Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano not to think of going for a second term in office.
Okorie, a former founding national Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, spoke while receiving top leaders of the APGA.
The APGA members, who had announced their decision to fuse the party with the UPP, was emphatic that Obiano would not be re-elected.
He equally declared that former national chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh would neither succeed in his bid to go to the Senate nor win any elective position in his lifetime.
It could be recalled that following a protracted legal tussle in the party, Okorie was later frustrated out of the party, an action he said inflicted wounds in his heart.
Consequently, addressing the APGA members, Okorie, who is now the national chairman of the UPP said: “It was with heavy heart that we left APGA. For the first time in Nigeria’s political history, a party’s certificate was willingly returned to the INEC, not under compulsion.
“I was seated here the day Victor Umeh went to the INEC and they gave him the same certificate, which I returned.
“I said it that it will burn his hand and that he will not know peace. Somebody should go and tell him that he will never be a senator till the end of his life; he will never be even a councilor till the end of his life.
“Peter Obi has come to say sorry and as far as I am concerned, that was enough; Sadiq Massala has also some to say sorry and I have forgiven him; so it is with many others.”
However, on Governor Obiano, he described him as “an inheritor of evil marchinations; Obiano will not return for second term. It is not his fault; I have nothing against him but he is an inheritor of evil.”
While expressing gladness over the new political developments, Okorie said it was a coming together of true progressives.
He said with the fusion of the APGA into the UPP, the party would bring about “resource control, fiscal federalism, state police, devolution of power and reduce to the barest minimum the exclusive legislative list and return to the federating units their power; that’s the only way Nigeria will progress.”
He further stated that every ethnic nationality would have a say in the UPP government, stressing that “we will not advocate for the balkanization of Nigeria, we will not advocate for distegration, but a true Nigeria that everybody will be happy.”
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