RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2021 and former President-General of Awka Development Union (ADU) Ozo Dr. Amobi Nwokafor FCA, MFR, has stated categorically that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will takeover Anambra State after the regime of Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo.
Nwokafor who spoke exclusively with this journalist in his palatial country home Okpuno Awka, maintained that the current All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA state government led by Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is APC in spirit because APGA, according to him, had to play APC to be able to win the last governorship election, otherwise the incumbent governor would have been removed.
Nwokafor explained that with the way and manner Nigerian politics is headed, there is no gainsaying the fact that APC will takeover Anambra after Soludo because Ndigbo, according to him, are beginning to understand that they should not play second fiddle in Nigerian politics anymore instead they are beginning to follow the precepts of their forefathers.
He further explained that upon creation of Nigeria, the forebears noted that Igbo people should play politics at the centre for them to realise the goal of politics. That Ndigbo should be at the centre all the time so as to be relevant in the affairs of Nigeria. That any time they lose the chances of being at the centre, they would become minority.
The astute administrator and chattered accountant of international repute recalled that in the second republic, Ndigbo got vice presidential slot and thereafter got president of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.
He however expressed deep concern that Ndigbo have relegated themselves to the background today in Nigerian politics as they were no longer at the centre where critical decisions were taken. Although he expressed hope that Ndigbo were beginning to rediscover themselves with the emergence of leaders like Sen. Hope Uzodimma, the Governor of Imo state; former Ebonyi state governor Dave Umahi and Peter Mbah, governor of Enugu state.
He said that the aforementioned crop of leaders have seen the dire need for Ndigbo to be at the centre for them to move forward in Nigeria. He reiterated that after Soludo, nothing will remain as APGA because a lot of Nigerians of Igbo extraction would have understood that they have to be at the centre to play politics and to get what is due for Ndigbo in Nigeria.
Nwokafor however corrected the wrong impression that Anambra is APGA land as he observed that some APGA politicians in the state have implanted a certain consciousness in the minds of the people that APC isn't a political party for Igbo people. He therefore emphasized that Ndigbo were beginning to regain consciousness that they need to align with the government at the centre to get what is due to them.
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