Obiano not colluding with Amaechi against Jonathan, says APGA youth

               

The youth wing of the All Progres­sives Grand Alli­ance (APGA) has expressed disgust over a report that Governors Wil­lie Obiano and Chibuike Amaechi of Anambra and Rivers states have been meeting with a view to un­dermining the government and aspirations of President Goodluck Jonathan, saying it was complete false.

Under the aegis of APGA Greater Tomorrow for Good Governance (AGTGG), the youth group, which addressed journalists in Awka stated also, “no member of APGA at any level is or has been meeting with or working closely with Governor Amaechi or even his proxies.”

Reading out a three-page document, copies of which were distributed to journalists, spokesman of the group, Mr. Emenike Sunday, stated, “nei­ther Mr. Dozie Nwankwo nor Governor Obiano as individu­als or in concert with each oth­er has ever been with Amaechi in same political party at any time at all.

“When Amaechi was in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nwankwo was in Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now that Nwankwo has since moved on to APGA, Amaechi is in All Progressives Congress (APC). That they all have their minds fixed on par­ticular ideological goals for their constituents,” he said.

Emenike blamed, “political prostitutes who have been shut­tling from one political party to the other for all the confusion and sponsorship of the smear article.”

He said: “Amaechi’s wife has no political involvement outside Rivers State. Also, he pointed out that in Kwara State, the Saraki political dynasty has different colourations.” He not­ed that Senator Bukola Saraki, a two-time governor of the state, belonged to the APC whereas his sister, Gbemisola Saraki is of the PDP.

AGTGG, according to Eme­nike, was set up to foster posi­tive leadership attitude among members and mobilise popular support for APGA candidates. They fingered some senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants in the PDP who they said were very jittery “that the revolutionary popularity” of Dozie Nwankwo, Chief Victor Umeh and Obiano would defeat them, as the brains behind the campaign of calumny.

He described as “infantile stunt the false accusations and misleading publications being circulated against Nwankwo, Umeh and Obiano,” stressing that the PDP aspirants know they stand no chance in the 2015 general elections in the state. So, they now resorted to cheap blackmail against APGA and her very outstanding candidates.

Umeh, according to the group, has stated it repeatedly that the APGA revolution in the country was now going beyond the Anambra political space.

“We are going to present the best candidates in each state of the federation, whose image and political stature would win election landslide anywhere,” he pledged.

The group accused a state deputy governor and his al­leged puppet (names withheld) as well as a House of Repre­sentatives member urging all to eschew trouble-making but to play by the rules, in the spirit of President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda.