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.
Umeh said: “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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