Obi: APGA targets take-over of S-East states
National News Feb 9, 2010

By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—NATIONAL chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, still basking in the euphoria of the victory of his party in last Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State, has said that

APGA’s next target is to take over other South East States.

Three states in the zone namely, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo are under the control of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while Abia is being controlled by the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA.

Umeh, who spoke at his Aguluzigbo, Anaocha Local Government Area country home, said that with the renewed mandate for Governor Obi, APGA has consolidated its hold on Anambra State, adding that the next target was to replicate the feat achieved in Anambra State in Imo, Abia, Enugu, and Ebonyi States.

“What we have achieved in Anambra State, we will replicate in other South East States, God being our helper.

We are going to make the other states in the South East the strong hold of APGA. Anambra is already

strengthened with Mr. Peter Obi’s re-election to serve as Governor for the next four years. The state is now strong and consolidated for APGA.

“From Anambra State, we can now go round to other South East States to extend the message of APGA to other brothers and sisters in the states and I am sure our people will respond positively. If you look at the happiness exuded by the people of the state over the victory of APGA, you will be grateful to God that what we did together has yielded fruits,” he said.


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Lets see how it goes. Excuse me pass jare.

Politicans and noise making!

Please we also need APGA in yoruba states - i am not to sure about AC

because they manage capture Anambra

blacksta:

Please we also need APGA in yoruba states - i am not to sure about AC

good stay not sure. Because AC is in edo and also trying to have presence in all of Nigeria not just the SW.

I have said times without number and will say it again on here, the stronghold of PDP in the South East is waning.
PPA and APGA will give PDP a run for their money in the South East.

I have never supported that idea of a mega opposition party. As long as little pockets of people can wake up and say no to the cabal Nigerians can take this country back one piece at a time.
Vincent Ogbulafor must be wondering what is happening to him by now.

APGA was only ALLOWED to win.

You people should get this right.

How come none of you is asking what really happened.

How come Soludo and Andy Uba conceded defeat just like that?

How come no one is asking why all the red-beret MOPOLs and amoured thanks that were patrolling anambra all disappeared on the day of the election.

Are you guys aware that Obj was in awka from friday till monday?


Things that are much more complicated than just free and fair election took place in Anambra on saturday.

onye_ngbu:

APGA was only ALLOWED to win.

You people should get this right.

How come none of you is asking what really happened.

How come Soludo and Andy Uba conceded defeat just like that?

How come no one is asking why all the red-beret MOPOLs and amoured thanks that were patrolling anambra all disappeared on the day of the election.

Are you guys aware that Obj was in awka from friday till monday?


Things that are much more complicated than just free and fair election took place in Anambra on saturday.

please,enlighten me cuz i'm lost with this your abacadabra theory.

onye_ngbu:

APGA was only ALLOWED to win.

You people should get this right.

How come none of you is asking what really happened.

How come Soludo and Andy Uba conceded defeat just like that?

How come no one is asking why all the red-beret MOPOLs and amoured thanks that were patrolling anambra all disappeared on the day of the election.

Are you guys aware that Obj was in awka from friday till monday?


Things that are much more complicated than just free and fair election took place in Anambra on saturday.

Conspiracy theorists are at large!  

Let me say what most people already know. The Federal government decided to give peace a chance in Anambra state. There was intelligence report before this election. Nigeria was sitting on a keg of explosives and no one in his right senses would play any stoopid games with Anambra people. So, get it!

Yes, APGA was allowed to win because Nigeria cannot afford another crisis or even war now (with Niger delta crisis and an absentee president).

I congratulate my people for standing their ground and insisting on genuine polls.

I hope other Nigerians copy Anambra state next year. PDP holds us captive because we let them.

onye_ngbu:

APGA was only ALLOWED to win.

You people should get this right.

How come none of you is asking what really happened.

How come Soludo and Andy Uba conceded defeat just like that?

How come no one is asking why all the red-beret MOPOLs and amoured thanks that were patrolling anambra all disappeared on the day of the election.

Are you guys aware that Obj was in awka from friday till monday?


Things that are much more complicated than just free and fair election took place in Anambra on saturday.

Utter hokum

Onlytruth:

Conspiracy theorists are at large!

Let me say what most people already know. The Federal government decided to give peace a chance in Anambra state. There was intelligence report before this election. Nigeria was sitting on a keg of explosives and no one in his right senses would play any stoopid games with Anambra people. So, get it!

Except for where you laballed me a conspiracy theorist, you got almost some of the other things you said right

Part of what I am saying with respect to the topic is that APGA cannot take over south east. They dont just have the followership to do just that yet.

In addition, PDP and Iwu did not allow Obi to win because of peace. They are not that decent.

PDP is coming to an End and I think maybe OBJ just used it as a means to bring power back down south and put Jonathan in.
PDP should essentially be a southern/middle belt party, I see no reason why SE,SS,SE,progressive Middle belt cant pass presidency back and forth.
PDP is just one big sheet that has small parties within themeselves.

Anambra was kinda funny tho, lol.

Didn''t Agbaso win the election in imostate under APGA but later abracadabra iwu and udenwa gave it to ohakim?

onye_ngbu:

Except for where you laballed me a conspiracy theorist, you got almost some of the other things you said right

Part of what I am saying with respect to the topic is that APGA cannot take over south east. They dont just have the followership to do just that yet.

In addition, PDP and Iwu did not allow Obi to win because of peace. They are not that decent.

I guess we both agree that PDP and Iwu did not "allow" Obi to win; he actually won, and hell would have broken lose if they rigged in Andy Uba or PDP. For Soludo, he lost because he is in PDP.
The mistake folks like you keep making is that you underestimate APGA and what it represents. That was the undoing of PDP, LP, AC and PPA. For the first time APGA has earned the respect it deserves.
My only problem with APGA now is that it seems their national chairman Victor Umeh is not as resourceful as the former one -Chekwas Okorie.
That party is beloved in the south east but the party leadership needs urgent reform.

That south east is a PDP region is the biggest myth of the day. South east is APGA, but PDP has been rigging the polls.
Politics is fluid anyway, but APGA will win south east if they play it like in Anambra.

If PDP is losing South Eastern States, then where's the hope of an Igbo President come 2015 or 2019? PDP at least is the machine that can be used to make that a reality. Chances would have been stronger had Soludo won in Anambra. Who knows he may later have become VP or the President? One thing is needful, seeing the future from the present and acting in accordance to realise your long term goals.

sjeezy8:

PDP is coming to an End and I think maybe OBJ just used it as a means to bring power back down south and put Jonathan in.
PDP should essentially be a southern/middle belt party, I see no reason why SE,SS,SE,progressive Middle belt cant pass presidency back and forth.
PDP is just one big sheet that has small parties within themeselves.

Anambra was kinda funny tho, lol.

I have always advocated for a strong regional party (APGA for instance). PDP is a national party of thieves!
Ndigbo should understand that if we have a strong and decent party controlling the south east, we can actually draw up development plans and elect decent people whom we know and who have our interests at heart. People who will implement programs that serve our needs, not the needs of some stoopid national interest.

I also say that we don't need to produce any president. All we need do is control our region and speak with one voice. Any president at the center must listen to us then,whether he likes it or not.

I see PDP as the biggest threat to our survival as a decent democratic people in Igboland.

Onlytruth:

I guess we both agree that PDP and Iwu did not "allow" Obi to win; he actually won, and hell would have broken lose if they rigged in Andy Uba or PDP. For Soludo, he lost because he is in PDP.
The mistake folks like you keep making is that you underestimate APGA and what it represents. That was the undoing of PDP, LP, AC and PPA. For the first time APGA has earned the respect it deserves.
My only problem with APGA now is that it seems their national chairman Victor Umeh is not as resourceful as the former one -Chekwas Okorie.
That party is beloved in the south east but the party leadership needs urgent reform.

That south east is a PDP region is the biggest myth of the day. South east is APGA, but PDP has been rigging the polls.
Politics is fluid anyway, but APGA will win south east if they play it like in Anambra.

Well if that is how APGA hopes to capture the rest of South East then I am sorry that dream will not material anytime soon.

The rest of the world will not sit down forever and allow APGA have a field day with what they want forever. If you think South East is predominatly APGA I can only say you think that based on who you know and what their political ideologies are.

The cynical politics played by APGA in Anambra will not fly in the rest of SouthEast.

McKren:

Well if that is how APGA hopes to capture the rest of South East then I am sorry that dream will not material anytime soon.

The rest of the world will not sit down forever and allow APGA have a field day with what they want forever. If you think South East is predominatly APGA I can only say you think that based on who you know and what their political ideologies are.

The cynical politics played by APGA in Anambra will not fly in the rest of SouthEast.

And the PDP politics played in imo state is sickening to say the least.

CoolSunny:

If PDP is losing South Eastern States, then where's the hope of an Igbo President come 2015 or 2019? PDP at least is the machine that can be used to make that a reality. Chances would have been stronger had Soludo won in Anambra. Who knows he may later have become VP or the President? One thing is needful, seeing the future from the present and acting in accordance to realise your long term goals.

Igbo Presidency is not the solution to all our problem. I think when you attach so much importance to it makes your adversaries think they deny you anything by denying you Presidency. There are a lot of long lasting opportunities to harness in politics by being in mainstream politics. The Presidency is about the least of them all.

Apart from a feel good moment for Igbos and creating employment for 1 politician of Igbo route. I don't know what else it will change. Because I don't know that the allocation to SouthEast states will increase as a result, nor do I know that you can legally have more opportunity than anyone else then. Because all policies will still need assembly approval to take effect.

Like everyone else we should all aspire to produce leaders. We have in the past and we can do it again. BUT IT IS NOT THE GREATEST OF OUR PROBLEMS.

Onlytruth:

The mistake folks like you keep making is that you underestimate APGA and what it represents. That was the undoing of PDP, LP, AC and PPA. For the first time APGA has earned the respect it deserves.

Actually I agree with you there but I only underestimated Obi's (not APGA's) power of orchestrating a massive rigging of that nature that is also very cleverly done.

Ngige is the victim of all that.

I will only maintain that PDP allowed that to play out because of their own internal reasons that has nothing to do with peace or decency.

CoolSunny:

If PDP is losing South Eastern States, then where's the hope of an Igbo President come 2015 or 2019? PDP at least is the machine that can be used to make that a reality. Chances would have been stronger had Soludo won in Anambra. Who knows he may later have become VP or the President? One thing is needful, seeing the future from the present and acting in accordance to realise your long term goals.

Thank you my brother. Soludo himself has been saying in his campaign that the only way our people can get things out of the FG is through PDP.
Most people kept complaining that PDP is evil as if every other party is not.

Even if ndigbo present a canonized saint as APGA presidential candidate, nobody will vote that person outside the south east. It is just as simple as that.

McKren:

Well if that is how APGA hopes to capture the rest of South East then I am sorry that dream will not material anytime soon.

The rest of the world will not sit down forever and allow APGA have a field day with what they want forever. If you think South East is predominatly APGA I can only say you think that based on who you know and what their political ideologies are.

The cynical politics played by APGA in Anambra will not fly in the rest of SouthEast.

Like I said in my earlier post, APGA under Umeh is not doing so well in articulating its manifesto and contesting polls. A reformed APGA  will sweep south east anyday.
PDP is a party of thieves!
We don't need presidency. We need electricity, good roads, good hospitals, good schools, good civil service, maintain our Igbo culture which has solutions to all our social problems. All those can be provided by decent state governors and houses of assembly. Other people can even copy us then.
Who says APGA can't spread beyond the south east? It is all a matter of party leadership.
President Reagan once said that the US rule the world by American culture. Who says we can't rule Nigeria by Igbo culture?
What APGA needs is visionary leadership.

asha 80:

And the PDP politics played in imo state is sickening to say the least.

Do you honestly believe Martins Agbaso will defeat Ohakim in next election?


Onlytruth

Chekwas Okorie is not the former chairman of APGA. He is the chairman of a parallel faction of APGA

onye_ngbu:

Actually I agree with you there but I only underestimated Obi's (not APGA's) power of orchestrating a massive rigging of that nature that is also very cleverly done.

Ngige is the victim of all that.

I will only maintain that PDP allowed that to play out because of their own internal reasons that has nothing to do with peace or decency.

Thank you my brother. Soludo himself has been saying in his campaign that the only way our people can get things out of the FG is through PDP.
Most people kept complaining that PDP is evil as if every other party is not.

Even if ndigbo present a canonized saint as APGA presidential candidate, nobody will vote that person outside the south east. It is just as simple as that.

More like he was saying that to whip up sentiments to garner votes for himself.You think the northern mallams will allow Soludo to become president after the rumor that they feel that that consolidation he engineerd did not favour the north?Let me tell the only igbo person that stands a chance of becoming president of nigeria through election selection is Ike Nwachukwu or Orji Uzor Kalu.

McKren:

Do you honestly believe Martins Agbaso will defeat Ohakim in next election?


Onlytruth

Chekwas Okorie is not the former chairman of APGA. He is the chairman of a parallel faction of APGA

Off course the rigging machinery of pdp under ohakim will clinch victory for him.In a free and Fair election Ohakim will not smell 3rd judging from his perfomances in government.It is not by speeches but by actions.What are Ohakims achievements?

onye_ngbu:


Thank you my brother. Soludo himself has been saying in his campaign that the only way our people can get things out of the FG is through PDP.
Most people kept complaining that PDP is evil as if every other party is not.

Even if ndigbo present a canonized saint as  APGA presidential candidate, nobody will vote that person outside the south east. It is just as simple as that.

This is why I was calling for a focused visionary party leadership. For the Igbo presidency thing, believe me, we have options. What we need now is the election of decent people in the south east under APGA (other parties are playing games with our purse!).
If we have honest and focused leadership in the south east, other states will see and accept APGA. Even if they don't, we should not let that sway us. That presidency thing won't serve us well if a thief from the south east is elected. He will only go there to fill our "quota" and things will continue as usual. We need to think past that banal line.

McKren:


Onlytruth

Chekwas Okorie is not the former chairman of APGA. He is the chairman of a parallel faction of APGA

That has since been settled by the courts and INEC. Chekwa Okorie's APGA is mute. That is why Obi is governor under APGA today.

asha 80:

More like he was saying that to whip up sentiments to garner votes for himself.You think the northern mallams will allow Soludo to become president after the rumor that they feel that that consolidation he engineerd did not favour the north?Let me tell the only igbo person that stands a chance of becoming president of nigeria through election selection is Ike Nwachukwu or Orji Uzor Kalu.

This is what we have been talking about!!!!!So in the whole of South East you believe Orji Kalu should legiimately represent the South East? as President of Nigeria? on what basis? Orji Kalu is an embarrassment to the South East!!!!!!!!!1

Please say something more useful

anything that will see an end to this people deceiving party is welcome to me,

asha 80:

More like he was saying that to whip up sentiments to garner votes for himself.You think the northern mallams will allow Soludo to become president after the rumor that they feel that that consolidation he engineerd did not favour the north?Let me tell the only igbo person that stands a chance of becoming president of nigeria through election selection is Ike Nwachukwu or Orji Uzor Kalu.

Ike Nwachukwu can get votes in PDP not APGA.
For Orji Uzor kalu, everybody in nigeria (north, east, west or south) knows that he is a thief

McKren:

This is what we have been talking about!!!!!So in the whole of South East you believe Orji Kalu should legiimately represent the South East? as President of Nigeria? on what basis? Orji Kalu is an embarrassment to the South East!!!!!!!!!1

Please say something more useful

I believe that him or Ike nwachukwu for some reasons that are known are the only igbos that can win rig a presidential election in nigeria today and be accepted by the power equation as presently structured in the country.

Who said i believe that OUK is the only igbo capable of ruling this country  I f u have seen my posts about him you will not be making this statement.Left to me if you give me a gun i will not blink an eye to blast both him and his mother for making Abia the sorry state it is now.

Do you think the present political structure i n nigeria wants an honest igbo man Try and understand where i am coming from.