NGIGE'S OSSOCIATE, ORANUSI, LEAVES APC FOR APGA

.As APC state secretary dumps APC for APGA

NGIGE'S OSSOCIATE, ORANUSI, LEAVES APC FOR APGA

The leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State and the senator representing Anambra Central senatorial district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Chris Ngige, has lost his political associate and major backer in the party, Ben Oranusi, to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Oranusi had yesterday at an elaborate ceremony in Umunze, Orumba South Council Area of the state declared for the APGA along with the state secretary of APC, Hon. Nestor Okoro and over 3,000 supporters of the party, saying that he found after the recent APC convention in Abuja that the Igbos had no future in the party.

He said he arrived at the decision from the way they were sidelined and that the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, had proved after 100 days in office that he remains the only moon shining in the state today.

Oranusi, who was the Chairman of the multi–party coalition that persuaded Ngige at a ceremony in Awka some time in March, 2013 to come and vie for the state governorship, three months before the APC was officially registered as a political party on May 4, of the same year, told the mammoth crowd of APGA supporters that the APC had collapsed in all the 21 council areas of the state and would not be able to field candidates in the state in the 2015 general election.

“After witnessing the recent APC national convention in Abuja and seeing how the Igbos were relegated to the background, I realised that we have no future in the party. Again, I have seen what Governor Obiano has done in 100 days and what he plans to do in the years ahead and needed no soothsayer to tell me that he is the messiah we are looking for. He called for our co–operation in a stakeholders’ meeting he convened at Awka and we have to support him.

“I believe all the Igbos in other political parties should come and join APGA as our own political platform from where we go into the national politics. The chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh has proved that he is one leader who can galvanize the Igbos and APGA into a formidable force in Nigerian politics and should be supported”, he said.