The last
may not have been heard about the death of late Ezeigbo Gburugburu, Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as the National Chairman of APGA and close
confidant of the departed leader, Chief Victor Umeh has vowed to tell the world
all he knows about his death. Umeh who was visibly angry while briefing newsmen
yesterday in Enugu over a recent claim that himself and Governor Rochas
Okorocha shunned a peace meeting held recently in Awka blamed both Governor Obi
and Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu for the problem in APGA.
The APGA
chairman who saw the claims as an attempt to portray himself and the Imo State
governor to the public as those who do not want peace in the party said, the
time was ripe to expose the activities of those involved to the public. Umeh
who claimed that the late Igbo leader suffered heart attack as a result of
pressure from some quarters, vowed to expose everything he knows about Ojukwu’s
illness and death once the one year remembrance of Ojukwu was done with on
November 26.
“Let November
26 come and go and I will expose all of their activities as they claim to be
upholding the ideals of Ojukwu. “The way things are going, very soon I will
start granting interviews again to put things in proper perspective both for
Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, Governor Peter Obi, Dr. Tim Menakaya; all of them that are
destroying this party now; I will come back to the public with their
activities; with details one after the other so that people will know what they
are doing; It’s time for me to expose everybody now; that time has come. “I
take no blame for what is happening; if there is any reconciliatory meeting,
any meeting where the progress of APGA will be discussed, that meeting should
be properly convened; people should be properly invited and notified, I will be
the first person to be there. “Because one after the other, I will look into
their faces and tell them what they have been doing, which I have refused to
tell the public. On the meeting, which he was reported to have shunned, the
APGA boss said he was surprised to read that a text message was sent notifying
him of the meeting:
“I wish to
state unequivocally that nobody sent me any text inviting me to any meeting at
Awka for the purpose of pursuing reconciliation in APGA. Umeh who said he
travelled to London on the November 2 to attend the convention of the United
Kingdom’s chapter of APGA and for the celebration of Ojukwu’s birthday in
Oxford said there was no indication of such a meeting anywhere before he
travelled. “I was therefore shocked when I returned to read that I shunned an
invitation for reconciliation; nothing can be further from the truth.
“I
investigated into this and was told that when I traveled, Governor Peter Obi on
November 3 sent text messages inviting people to a stakeholders meeting at Awka
on Tuesday November 6; I was also shown a text message sent to Governor Obi by
Chief Chris Ejike Uche the APGA Deputy National Chairman, South, informing him
that he should shift the meeting to Tuesday November 13, 2012 because, both
myself and Governor Okorocha had travelled to London and would come back on the
8th of November; he went further to say that the meeting was sudden and there
was need for both myself and the Imo State governor to be in attendance.
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