By Emma Ogbuehi
The Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, SAUGCO has reacted to media reports credited to Governor Willy Obiano, absolving Anambra citizens from the spate of violence and killings plaguing the state, arguing that the confession vindicates the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 6 governorship, Senator Andy Uba.
Special Adviser on Political Matters to Governor Obiano, Ifeatu Obiokoye, had in explaining the governor’s absence at last Tuesday parley by South East leaders, on the deteriorating security situation in the zone, allegedly stated that the governor could not fathom sitting to discuss security with “certain individuals” who he alleged were behind the violence rocking the state.
“What people are saying goes to no issue in the first instance because it is public knowledge that those doing the killings are not from Anambra state and no Anambra person would go to this extent.
“These people are from outside Anambra state and you expect the governor to be holding meetings with them on security challenges which those people are executing?,” Obiokoye reportedly said.
SAUGCO in a statement by the Director, Media and Publicity, Victor Ogene, argued that on account of the Political Adviser’s open confession that no Anambra person, high or low, is involved in the disturbances ravaging our dear state, its candidate, Uba, deserves apology from the Ogovernor’s camp being strenuously maligned in that respect.
“Conventional wisdom dictates that it is counterproductive to seek to play politics with issues of security. This is so because in attempting to politicise any security challenge, the real culprits would be left with a leeway to continue to evade detection.
“Now, with the open admission that Senator Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba is not in any way involved in the ugly spectacle going on in Awka, the honourable thing to do is, offer unreserved apologies to him.
“We have always maintained that issues of security is everyone’s call, hence our relentless call on Governor Obiano to step forward and take charge,” Ogene noted.