Former Nigerian ambassador to Spain and widow of Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has opened up on how the former governor of
Anambra State, Peter Obi, failed to sustain the legacies of the late
Igbo leader in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Bianca said Obi rode on the wings of the late Ikemba Nnewi to the
government house on the platform of APGA but he had abandoned it.
She took her anger to a new level by laying curse on her late husband’s protégée, thus asking ‘history to judge him harshly’.
She told Sun that, nambra
State cannot be hoodwinked as they are determined not to indulge him
with a third tenure by installing his candid“APGA’s political credo revolves essentially around
those principles championed by Ojukwu in the Ahiara Declaration which
constitutes the benchmarks of a well-ordered society.
“Ikemba envisaged an administrative model with a dynamic policy for
industrialisation which concentrates on the employment of primary
products in various domestic manufactures, a government which creates
possibilities for citizens with talent in business and civil
administration, agriculture, technology, trade and commerce, to mention
but a few, to fulfil themselves and receive their due reward and
appreciation in service to the state.
“It is simple. I maintain that Peter Obi betrayed Dim Ojukwu, and
tried to destroy APGA for his own selfish interests. He has continued to
undermine Ojukwu’s personality and recently, he has gone ahead to
desecrate his legacy. From relative obscurity, Obi was brought into
national prominence when the leader, Ojukwu, through his party APGA,
offered him an opportunity and platform upon which he ran and became
governor of Anambra State.“Ojukwu sacrificed so much and laboured for him to become governor.
He (Ojukwu) was fiercely protective of him and helped him overcome the
various challenges that confronted him. Peter Obi had a difficult first
tenure and stepped on so many toes that the majority of our party
faithful were adamant that he should not be nominated for a second
tenure. Yet Ojukwu stood by him when it mattered most, jeopardised his
health by traversing all the local governments in a rigorous campaign on
his behalf and begged the people of Anambra State to grant him a last
wish by returning Obi for a second term.
“This feat was achieved for the first time in Anambra State’s history
on 6th February 2010. Peter Obi swore to Ojukwu, upon his honour, that
he would never abandon APGA; that he would quit politics or die; rather
than leave APGA, and that he would preserve this legacy as a potent
voice and rallying point for Ndigbo.
“History will judge him (Obi) harshly because the truth of the matter
is that it is his pathological fear of political redundancy and
oblivion that is now driving him dangerously close to the precipice from
where he will soon commit political suicide. The people of Aate as governor.”