Former Governor Peter Obi’s
recent defection from All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, is still causing ripples, with Governor Willie Obiano’s
senior special assistant on inter party affairs, Chief Ben Obi saying yesterday
that the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu knew that the
former governor would dump APGA.
Addressing
reporters in Awka, Ben Obi, who also served as SSA to former Governor Obi said
that it was in his presence that the late Ikemba Nnewi asked Obi three times if
he would leave APGA to which the former governor vowed that such a thing would
never happen.
He
said: “I saw his defection coming because I worked with him as SSA on inter
party affairs and throughout the period he was in court fighting to get his
mandate back.
“We
grew up together and attended the same school and I knew that Obi is very
crafty, which sometimes fail him.
“During
his tenure, we were at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha when Ojukwu
fainted. I had to carry him in my Hummer Jeep to the nearby Waterside Hospital
for treatment and as I was singing a song to him, Obi came in. At that
point, Ikemba raised his head and asked Obi if he was sure he would not leave
APGA and he answered yes. Ojukwu repeated the question two times and this made
Obi to swear with a bible he was holding that he would never leave APGA to any
other party.
“Ojukwu
asked this the question because he suspected that the former governor would
dump APGA as soon as he (Ojukwu) was no more. It was unfortunate that he he did
not keep to that promise.”
He
(Obi) once said that leaving APGA to PDP was like going to Iraq, adding that by
eventually joining PDP, he is in Iraq and he knew the consequences...
Hmmmmh, he really surprised us
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