Amid intense speculations that Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, is contemplating defecting from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to the All Progressive Congress (APC), member of House of Representatives and APC chieftain from the state, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, has warned that the governor would not be welcome in the party.
In a statement issued yesterday in Awka, the Anambra state capital, Ogene, who represents Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, stated that it would amount to hypocrisy of the highest order for Obiano to want to benefit from his perfidy of only a few days ago, when he deployed state apparatus against the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari, and the APC candidates in the March 28, 2015 elections.
“For a Pharoah , like Gov. Obiano, who obviously does not know any Joseph, attempting to cross over to the APC with his liabilities and attitude of polluting any environment he finds himself – like the dire straits he has left APGA after only one year – his entry into the APC would only stunt the expected resurgence of the party in the state and the entire South East geo- political zone”, the statement said.
Ogene, who is also Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, wondered what value the governor would add to the APC, after abysmally leading APGA- in cohort with its National Chairman, Victor Umeh – down the part of extinction through a combination of autocracy, vindictiveness, haughtiness and a crass disposition of self- adulation.
According to Ogene; “Is the man we are talking about not the one who, in the words of famed novelist, the late Chinua Achebe, had his palm kernel cracked for him by benevolent spirits, yet he refused to be humble. Where is former Gov. Peter Obi? Where are the five House of Representatives members that Obiano inherited when he became governor? How many seats did he lead APGA to win in the just concluded elections? The questions are legion, yet very few optimistic answers.”
He stated that in the circumstance, he would advise Obiano to remain in APGA and clean up the mess he instigated, before embarking on another fruitless political voyaging.