The All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dreads its party the way demons and occultic people tremble at the name of Jesus.
The party said that the spirit of its late leader and founder, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is still with them, noting that it remained inseparable with the late Ikemba Nnewi.
The party was reacting to a statement credited to Anambra State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Ken Emeakayi, where he allegedly asked Governor Willie Obiano and APGA to refrain from using Ojukwu’s name for election purposes.
The Anambra State Secretary of APGA, Hon. Tony Ifeanya, described the PDP Chairman’s statement as ill motivated and shadow chasing.
He noted that the late Ojukwu being the founding father of APGA, the Igbo nation transferred the love and respect they had for him to the APGA party.
He said, “Our attention has been drawn to the publication by the Ken Emeakayi led faction of PDP, Anambra State asking our working Governor to stop using Ojukwu’s name for election. To say the least, the publication and all its contents were misconstrued, ill motivated and shadow chasing.
“It is crystal clear that Ojukwu is the founding father of APGA in Nigeria and its first and only presidential candidate. It is also clear that the love which the Igbo nation had for their legendary hero, Ojukwu was transferred to APGA, his political party with which he wanted to rekindle the Igbo spirit and bring same alive into Nigerian politics.
“Granted that our darling hero and founder is dead, does it stop his party from calling his name while going on or keeping alive his legacies and dreams for Ndigbo? What Ken Emeakayi is saying can be likened to asking Chukwuma Azikiwe to stop using the name, Azikiwe or asking Mandella’s son to stop answering his father’s name.
“Why? Because it is a popular name. Because the father is a hero and because the father’s name will attract goodwill to the son or daughter. This is what Emeakayi is trying to say in essence and which you can see is borne of the fact that at the mention of Ojukwu’s name every right thinking Igbo man will agree and concur because the Igbos know what Ojukwu meant to them.
“Let me tell our brother Ken Emeakayi in unmistaken terms that Ojukwu and APGA are like Siemens twins which cannot be separated. Ojukwu lived and died professing the ideals of APGA as a political party and all we can do as his lovers is to keep those his ideals alive. And we cannot be professing what he imbibed in us without mentioning or calling his name.”
The APGA scribe further said, “I do not see anything bad with that. I know it offends the likes of Ken Emeakayi because by calling or using Ojukwu’s name, we are reminding them of their sins against Ndigbo by not identifying with their own hero. It portrays them in their true light as enemies of Ndigbo who are ready for a plate of porridge to fritter away the only hope of Ndigbo in the Nigerian polity which is APGA.
“I feel for them because I know it puts a sense of guilt in them hence they would not like hearing us mention the name just like the occults will frown and shiver at the mention of the name Jesus Christ. So we have no apologies for calling on our founding father. We are doing what he passed to us as good ambassadors of the Igbo nation.”
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