Gracia Simeon -Abakaliki
The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, Chief Tochukwu Okorie, has boosted that the “real leaders” of their party will soon, take back the party and rebuild it.
Okorie stated this in a statement he signed, made available to newsmen in Abakaliki, after the party recorded a bad performance at the just concluded general election in the state as some notable leaders of the party declare their support for the ruling Party All Progressive Congress (APC) .
According to Okorie, the party was bedeviled by intractable crisis and vowed to retrieve it from some moneybags and his group in the party, the likes of Onyeike and rebuild it .
Among the leaders that declared support for the APC at the poll, is former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim.
Anyim has been under attack by some chieftains of the party in the state for supporting APC at the election.
The National Working Committee(NWC) of the party last week suspended him from the party for alleged anti-party activity.
One of the chieftains of the party and Director of Media and Publicity of the governorship candidate of the party at the poll, Chief Ifeanyi Odii, Chief Abia Onyeike, described Anyim as a betrayal who has not electoral value anymore.
“We are worried, though, that Onyike has consistently displayed symptoms usually associated with dementia and sincerely hope that those around him would be kind enough to keep an eye on him.
“While we sympathize with his puerile effort at regenerating public discourse around his aberrant, now decrepit political adventure, Onyike needs be told that he is totally incapable of bullying anyone, let alone, a man of Sen. Anyim’s sagacity.
“It is possible that Abia Onyike was busy chasing after life in faraway Congo when the Movement for the Creation of Ebonyi State finally yielded fruits and Ebonyi State was created in 1996. If he had been there, he would probably have remembered the intense contentions about where to site the state capital and what political bloc would produce the first Executive Governor. Whether that conversation took place among non-existing three senatorial zones or between two political blocs, Abia Onyike would never know.
“Need I bother to remind a wilful deviant that that conversation was between the Afikpo bloc, coming from old Abia State and Abakaliki bloc from old Enugu State?
Besides, the decision to revert to that original arrangement by PDP was not unilateral. It was taken at the meeting of the State Executive Committee (SEC), the highest policy-making organ of the party, in the interest of equity.
“The real leaders of PDP will eventually take back their party and rebuild it, and the likes ofAbia Onyike will then have only their wounds to lick.
As for Ebonyi, the ship sailed long ago. We advise Abia Onyike, therefore, to devise another intelligent means of keeping his victim blindfolded without having to have Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim on his lips all the time. Or better still, he should get a livelihood”Okorie stated. ENDS
