Governor Peter Obi
Following
Tuesday’s endorsement of merger between the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC), the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by
chief Chekwas Okorie has started wooing Governor Peter Obi to join the
party to remain politically relevant.
Governorship aspirant on the platform of
UPP, Okey Umeano told newsmen in Awka governor Obi at present has no
political party following the involvement of APGA led by Rochas Okorocha
in the merger arrangement.
“You can see that APGA is already dead
in Anambra State. If UPP takes over in Anambra State, the mass movement
into UPP will make it to capture the state and capitalize on that to
spread of igbos in other areas to win nationally.”
He stated that UPP was formed out of a
political calculation to give the South East geo-political zone a base
and spread in other parts of the country.
He said sponsoring Alhaji Sadiq Masalla
against Victor Umeh was a miscalculation as the tenure of Masalla like
Umeh expired since 2010.
He said the Independent Nationasl
Electoral Commission (INEC) would not recognize Masalla as the acting
national chairman of APGA based on what he described as an illegal
mandate.
Umeano said he believes Umeh went for
the merger to avoid having APGA deregistered adding that Umeh’s legal
bid to arrest judgment of the high court which declared that he was not
the national chairman of APGA was on account of the fact that he has no
letter to present to INEC that he is still the national chairman of
APGA.
Umeano described the merger as the
coming together of strange fellows adding that UPP is not interested in
going for any merger as the purpose of registering UPP after APGA’s
alleged engineered crisis was to give the South East a power base.
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