APGA, Oye And the Naysayers

By Collins Opurozor.

Politics means different things to different persons. Some say it is all about who gets what, when and how. Some others believe it is just about struggle for power. It has also been seen as the authoritative allocation of values. But, for some people still, politics is not in any way different from pure robbery. To people in the latter category, deceit, bestiality and mudslinging are the very spices of politics. George Orwell could have had such characters in mind when he wrote that, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

In APGA today, you find a coterie of displaced politicians and wannabe “guymen” whose worldview is blurred by this most atavistic, retrogressive, reprehensible and prehistoric notion about politics. They are the ones who move up and down, prattling about and scavenging for easy preys to devour. What is worrisome is that in their inordinate lust for bread and butter, they fruitlessly ever wish to drag the names of very revered political leaders in our clime to the mud.

In his unrepentant disposition to peace, abiding love for humanity and faith in refined values, the National Chairman of APGA, Dr. Victor Ike Oye (Ozonkpu), has been at the receiving end of their machinations ever since he became the helmsman of the party.

When he assumed the administrative cockpit of the party and unveiled his roadmap, which was seen by the buccaneers as an audacious attempt to introduce Godliness into politics and cut short their reign of cruelty, they congregated in their coven and vowed that Dr. Oye would never stay beyond six months in office. Immediately after the 2016 governorship election, they came up bizarre moonlight tales and began their jaundiced and futile battles against the redeemer of APGA. But, as it is with every battle between light and darkness, they were defeated, exposed and put to shame. And God gave victory to his anointed one, and strengthened him, too. To confirm that the man leading APGA has the seal of His Divine authority, the Lord opened up a floodgate of electoral victories for APGA. The party won the governorship election in Anambra in all the twenty-one local government areas of the state. The party also won the Anambra Central senatorial election, winning in all the Wards in that District.

After the 2019 general elections, these same traducers and naysayers realigned and reared up their heads again. What made their latest outing funny, silly and absurd is that when they could not find anyone within the party to use, they settled for non-members of the party to stoke crisis and negotiate for settlement. Man must wack!

Their willing-tools were drawn principally from SDP, ADC and some other dead political parties. For instance, in Anambra State, one Tony Ezekwelu, who remains till date a card-carrying member of the ADC and who was a flagbearer in the party just last year, is the one they are using, while their principal sponsor in Imo State is an active chieftain of SDP from Ideato North.

The Ezekwelu of a guy has an interesting lifestyle. He has tried his hands in virtually everything under the sun without success. He had wanted to be President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths. People who knew him rose up and vehemently resisted him. And when he felt that memories had faded, he went to Umuchu in Aguata to lure Chief Godwin Ezeemo into a very big trap designed for personal aggrandizement. When that one failed as well, he came up with a very silly idea of building a house for the late Ikemba Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Awka. That one also failed. His motive was simple and clear: to make some cold cash. Today, APGA is his target!

Some other characters like Edozie Njoku and Mic Adams are also simply craving for what to eat. Daily, they move from one man to another begging for sponsorship to their meaningless court cases, whereas the chief objective is to find daily bread. Between 2018 and 2019, Adams survived on the bills of an Imo governorship aspirant from Ngor Okpala. Completely homeless, Adams had no roof whatsoever above his head until the aspirant, his cash cow and personal lord and saviour, rented one and gave him the keys. Till date, Adams remains the undoing of the aspirant

Edozie Njoku cornered a governorship aspirant from Mbaise and led him completely astray with tales of false hope and a stratagem which in the end abbreviated that political dream of the Mbaise-born banker but only left Njoku smiling to the banks.

It is important to know the facts about these naysayers, so that anyone who sees them and refuses to flee will have oneself to blame in the end.

But in the face of their mindless antagonisms, mischiefs and bellicose misadventures, Dr. Oye has remained strong and steadfast in taking APGA to the promised land. Unsullied is his heart, and never does evil word escape him lips. He radiates the peace of a Godly spirit, and works tirelessly to record achievements that are etched on the sands of time. Jackals may howl in the field, but up above shines the star.

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