The Anambra State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Norbert Obi has urged the six members of the Anambra State House of Assembly who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC to reconsider their decisions while it is still early and come back to the party.
Sir Norbert who disclosed this in a press conference at APGA’s state headquarters in Awka, said that granted the fact that defections may not be too bad if properly done based on ideological differences, the party is at loss as to why politicians who rode on its back to victory in 2019 would make such hasty turns without formal reference to APGA’S leadership both at the national and state levels.
ABS reports that the APGA state chairman, while admitting that there is no political party in Nigeria without its own challenges, especially as the Anambra governorship election draws close, said that it was improper and unpolitical for the defected state lawmakers to overlook all reconciliatory steps set up by Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State.
He stated that following internal hiccups that arose from the last primaries of the party, Governor Obiano has set up a Peace/Reconciliation Committee headed by a former National Chairman of the party, Senator Victor Umeh, to listen to and work on dissatisfactions of the aggrieved party members, stressing that it was unjust and hurtful that the defected lawmakers threw caution in the wind by taking steps to harm the party that brought them to the limelight.
Sir Norbert who said that the appeal should not be seen as a sign of weakness but a fatherly magnanimity, urged them to come back so the party could win together as one family and savour the victory of November six, without anyone having to regret his or her actions.
The party chief who described APGA as not just a political party but a movement for the actualization of the Igbo agenda in the Nigerian polity said that it would amount to self-hurt if anyone took actions to undermine the political group.
He described Professor Chukwuma Soludo as a prophecy bound to happen, adding that the wishes and dreams of APGA’s founding father, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, for Ndi Igbo must never be discarded by the actions of few people.
