The crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, may have assumed a frightening dimension as the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, is being dragged into the murky political waters bedevilling the party
A close confidant of the late Igbo leader and embattled national chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, has vowed to reveal to the world all he knows about Ojukwu’s death. Umeh, who was visibly angry, stated this while briefing newsmen yesterday in Enugu over a recent claim that himself and Governor Rochas Okorocha declined an invitation to a reconciliatory meeting held recently in Awka, put the blames squarely on the shoulders of both Governor Obi and Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu
He frowned at the attempt to portray himself and the Imo State governor to the public as those who do not want peace in the party stating that the time was ripe to expose the activities of those involved to the public. Umeh who also claimed that the late Igbo leader suffered heart attack as a result of pressure from certain quarters, vowed to expose everything he knows about Ojukwu’s illness and death once the one year remembrance of Ojukwu was done with on November 26.
“Let November 26 come and go and I will expose all of their activities as they claim to be upholding the ideals of Ojukwu. The way things are going, very soon I will start granting interviews again to put things in proper perspective both for Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, Governor Peter Obi, Dr. Tim Menakaya – all of them that are destroying this party now, I will come back to the public with their activities, with details one after the other so that people will know what they are doing.
“It’s time for me to expose everybody now. That time has come. I take no blame for what is happening; if there is any reconciliatory meeting, any meeting where the progress of APGA will be discussed, that meeting should be properly convened, people should be properly invited and notified, I will be the first person to be there. Because one after the other, I will look into their faces and tell them what they have been doing, which I have refused to tell the public.”
Umeh also expressed shock at news making the rounds that he was sent a text message notifying him of a meeting where the problems of APGA were to be discussed and solutions provided. According to him,”I wish to state unequivocally that nobody sent me any text inviting me to any meeting at Awka for the purpose of pursuing reconciliation in APGA.”
Umeh who said he was in London for the UK chapter of APGA’s convention and for the celebration of Ojukwu’s birthday in Oxford, said there was no indication of such a meeting anywhere before he travelled. “I was therefore shocked when I returned to read that I shunned an invitation for reconciliation; nothing can be further from the truth” he concluded.
