I Am Angry With Peter Obi, Victor Umeh , Says Obidigbo

     

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The only APGA governorship aspirant yet to team up with Anambra governor, Willie Obiano, after the party’s primaries and who is challenging the choice of Obiano by the party at the Supreme Court has explained why he is still in the trenches, reports Jude Atupulazi.

Speaking with Fides in his office at Umunya on why he did not join other candidates when they were invited by Obiano to a meeting Chief Chike Obidigbo said he was fighting the injustice meted out to him by APGA following the gubernatorial primaries of the party, even as he declared that Obiano was yet to reach out to him personally to sheathe his sword.

‘No olive branch has been extended to me. I only heard it through rumour and I returned it through rumour too. I’ve not seen any olive branch. I’m still fighting because I’m not the typical politician who is a butterfly. If you hurt somebody apologize from your heart,’ Obidigbo stated.

He also stated that by the time the invitation came he was already in court.

He further expressed anger at the way he was treated by the former governor of the state Peter Obi and the national chairman of the party Victor Umeh, accusing Obi particularly of letting him down.

According to Obidigbo he was invited by Obi to run for governor but discovered along the way that some other people from his Anambra North zone were also invited by Obi to run.

Worried by this, Obidigbo stated, he confronted Obi in the presence of all the other contenders and asked him to tell them whom he wanted from the lot but Obi told him he could not take the decision as it was for the north zone to choose whomever they wanted after which he would support the person.

He said he told Obi several times that he was not desperate to be governor as long as it went to the north.

Obidigbo however said he did not know that all the while Obi had Obiano in mind as his candidate but only used them to till the ground for Obiano whom he brought out at the last moment after they had spent their resources.

He expressed unhappiness that even after he was endorsed by Anambra North people as their choice Obi did not accept him.

On Umeh he accused him of turning the party away from its original ideals one of which was to position it as the third leg of the nation’s politics as wel as a platform for Ndigbo to be heard.

He accused the party leadership of failure to hold it together leading to the recent defections even though he admitted that the defectors did so because of the uncertainty of their political future in APGA.

He charged them to continue to fight to ensure that the right things were done in APGA even though they were no longer members of the party.

Obidigbo however pointed out that he was still not desperate to be governor despite his determination to fight against injustice. ‘It’s not a do or die affair. If I leave APGA I will face my business. I’m not into politics for money but because I know what I can do for the state. I have the capacity and the willingness to do it.

On his assessment of Obiano’s strides so far Obidigbo said even though Obiano had industrialization as one of his four pillars he lacked the capacity to achieve it. He however hailed Obiano’s focus on security even as he criticised Obiano’s method of fighting crime with guns.

‘Security has improved but I’m against fighting criminals with guns. I don’t dislike Obiano but the people that hurt me are Obi and Umeh. All I want is justice, fairness and accountability as Anambra belongs to all,’ Obidigbo stated.

On his court case he said if he failed he would go to his business and take it as God’s wish but that at present the struggle would continue. ‘We’re hoping and looking up to God. We believe in the law of the country and God will be with us,’ he said noting that that the Supreme Court would resume in September to hear his case and that of Maxi Okwu of the breakaway faction of APGA.

‘If Okwu wins, I win and if he loses, I lose,’ Obidigbo concluded.