Posted by By GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka on
The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone, Dr. Ugochukwu Uba has blamed the elders of the state for the crisis that has rocked the state for two years now.
The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone, Dr. Ugochukwu Uba has blamed the elders of the state for the crisis that has rocked the state for two years now.
Uba who was addressing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members led by Mr. Uchenna Emodi at its secretariat in Udoka Estate Tuesday lambasted elders and stakeholders in the state who he said, failed to stand up for the truth when the crisis started brewing, hence allowing it to escalate.
He said, 'It is not unusual to have crisis and there is crisis in Anambra State, the beauty of it is that you learn from it, there used to be disagreement and dispute in the family, community and in a nation, it is normal but where it pains is when elders sat at home and allow goat to die in tatters.
'Why we are still where we are today is because those who supposed to say the truth are more interested in what will go to their pockets or selfish gains and if it didn't come through that angle, he scatters everything. But when you come with the truth to settle a dispute, it results in peace and progress.
'So there are many elders who are in Anambra who left the goat to die in tatters and I want all of us to go and release the goat from the tatters, so that it can be free and our party will move forward".
He stressed that the crisis has taught them a great lesson, that what happened will not happen again for they would be more careful next time.
Senator Uba who is the elder brother of Chief Chris Uba the estranged political godfather to Governor Chris Ngige, also said that the time has come for the Igbos to play politics of principle and not that of the stomach.
In an address at the stakeholders meeting which saw King of High Life Music Chief Osita Osadebe in attendance and the decamping of former minority leader of Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon. Ifeanyi Ibegbu and his supporters from All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP) to PDP, the state chairman, Emodi said the meeting was specifically to discuss the visit of the National chairman, Senator Ahmadu Ali to the state.
He acknowledged that all is not well within the party and government in the state following 'obvious developments", adding that though he had not come to judge or apportion blames,
'I believe that history will at its own time and convenience look at the moral question that is Anambra State today, having regard to the genesis of the problem and how one man without any input usurped a group effort aimed at uplifting our people as a family agenda," Emodi said.
Emodi restated that there is only one PDP in the State and Nigeria, stressing that those who out of their own violation absent themselves from party activities and important party meetings would blame themselves on the day of reckoning; adding that 'no amount of contrivances, legal and otherwise can derail us from our chosen path of forward ever, backward never".
Others who spoke included a former Senator, Ikechukwu Abana, Hon. Chuma Nzeribe, Chief Dan Ulasi, Chief Osita Osadebe, former Speaker Anambra State House of Assembly, Eucharia Azodo.
In a communiqué issued at end of the meeting and read by Hon. Nzeribe, the party resolved to invite the National Chairman, Senator Ali, to visit the state and also mandated the state chairman to constitute a five-man reception/planning committee for the visit.
It also resolved to reorganize the Ward/Local Government Area / State Congresses as directed by the National Headquarters.
'PDP Anambra State Chapter hereby ratify the expulsion of the following people, Mrs. Chinyere Onyenso, Ogugua Nwosu, Emma Obele, Isaac Nwofor, Eric Omejirichi and also ratify the expulsion of the former Deputy Chairman of the Party Barr. Okoye for anti-party activities.