Embarking on campaigns, shadow chasing, Abia APC tells Ogah
From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia
The leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has mocked immediate past Minister of Steel and Mines Development, Dr Sampson Uchechukwu Ogah that his purported plan of embarking on governorship electioneering would amount to building a house in the air.
Abia APC Chairman, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu and the State Secretary, David Avajah, told newsmen in Umuahia Thursday that Ogah was alone in his governorship bid and would soon realize that he is chasing shadow when it dawns on him that the party hierarchy in the state has since distanced themselves from him.
According to them, Ogah would, sooner than later, find out to his dismay, that he was chasing a shadow that would soon plunge him into political oblivion.
They pointed to the absence of party bigwigs during the reception held for him at his Umuahia campaign office on Wednesday when return to celebrate his Abuja court verdict that awarded him governorship ticket, stressing that it “was a pungent message to the former minister that his court victory meant nothing to his party.”
Speaking on Ogah fanfaring his arrival from Abuja, the chairman of Abia APC, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu, questioned the rationale behind celebrating “a dummy ticket,” which would serve him no good.
“It is an irony that Uche Ogah, who transferred his case to Abuja using ‘security challenges in Abia’ as pretext, has now returned to the same Abia to celebrate what he considers as court victory,” the party chairman said.
He said that Ogah, “the celebrant” has demonstrated that he has no love for the people of Abia and was insensitive to their sufferings in the hands of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that his activities were geared towards assisting those holding the state down to maintain their grip.
“That is the glaring reason every person of note in our party has isolated him(Ogah) because they all know his game plan and they detest his antics and shenanigan coming at a time our party is formidably prepared to rescue and develop Abia State.
“We know the source of the inglorious music that Ogah and his misguided followers are dancing to but I can assure them that our party is stronger than these agents of distraction and destabilisation,” Dr Ononogbu said.
While addressing party faithful who came to welcome him on his return, Ogah promised to assemble his campaign team and kick-off his gubernatorial campaigns. However, responding to Ogah’s remark, the Abia APC chairman scoffed at Ogah’s claim that he would soon embark on electioneering, noting that it was akin to building a house in the air as he has no party base to embark on such a political venture.
The state secretary of Abia APC, Hon Chidi Avajah, said it was ridiculous that Ogah would be hell bent on pursuing personal interest to the detriment of Abia, a state crying to be liberated from bad governance.
According to him, with what happened on Wednesday, “it would have dawned on Ogah that our party has nothing to do with him and whatever he was celebrating.
“The party has duly made its choice and nothing can detract from the fact that High Chief Ikechi Emenike is the governorship candidate of APC for the 2023 governorship poll in Abia.”
“In due course, Ogah would realise that his adventure of chasing after the wind would lead him to political oblivion, and even those cheering and clapping for him would eventually abandon him to his self-inflicted sad fate,” the party Secretary added.
He urged all Abia APC faithful genuinely committed to the liberation of God’s Own State “to ignore Ogah and his gang of mischief makers and forge ahead with the task of winning the 2023 poll in Abia under the leadership of High Chief Ikechi Emenike.”
