Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has described Ojukwu Jr. as Obiano as “a sad irony of his father”, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who “in his lifetime, was the champion of the struggle for the rights and emancipation of his people, standing firm with his Igbo brothers and sisters and never betraying their cause.”
He said this while debunking a claim that he pestered Emeka Ojukwu to return to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
THEWILL recalls that Ojukwu Jr had on November 15, dumped APGA, a political party believed to have been founded by his late father, for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The son of the Biafran warlord later claimed that Obiano had been lobbying for him to return to the party.
But responding in a statement by his Media Aide, Olivier Okpala, Obiano said Ojukwu lied against him, stressing that he had never talked to the late Igbo leader’s son since he joined the APC.
“It is a matter of pure pathetic fallacy for the younger Ikemba to say that Governor Obiano is lobbying him to come back to APGA,” the statement read.
“The governor wondered on what grounds anybody would ever lobby Ojukwu to return to APGA while he never held any important position to warrant being described as a stakeholder or a leader of the party when he was a member of APGA.
“In fact, nobody knew that he was a member of the party.
“I wonder what the Great Ikemba would be thinking when his son openly denied the only political entity which he left to unite the Igbo under a political umbrella.
“It is unfortunate that Ojukwu’s son described an elder and the governor of his state as one playing juvenile and local politics when the late Ojukwu respected constituted authorities.
“We urge Ojukwu Jnr to show respect to the governor and continue his sojourn with the APC rather than make untrue remarks about the governor.”
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