National leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, said the party is not intimidated with the antics of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in its “penchant for toying with the fortunes of the party.” (Picture left Ojukwu, right, Iwu)Ojukwu who spoke in his Casabianca Lodge told reporters that the chairman of the commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, is playing with fire for disobeying court orders as they affect the future of APGA.
Warning Iwu and “his other collaborators that if the sun does not rise, there will be darkness”, Ojukwu insists that it is not acceptable to APGA for somebody outside the party to decide for them.
Specifically making reference to Iwu’s preference of Chekwas Okorie’s faction as its recognized APGA despite court orders to the contrary in favor of Chief Victor Umeh, the APGA leader advised Iwu to “allow us to do what is our own view in our own way.”
According to him: “As far as we are concerned, our position has been known on this issue. Grant us our right or darkness shall come. I am not threatening any body but suffice it to say that we will not fold our arms for us to be robbed to pay Paul.
“I have a stake in Nigeria and I have a character known to Nigerians as well as friends and foes of Nigeria. With Iwu’s penchant to disobeying court orders, Nigerians will soon decide the line of action to take against him.
“I am never bullied into subservience. But I advise Iwu not to attempt sidelining APGA.”
Ojukwu said he i not going to ask President Umaru Yar’adua to intervene in the matter because the President knows the truth about it and knows what to do about it.
The Ikemba, also, expressed implicit confidence that APGA would win the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State despite the “distractions” by INEC, adding, “that is if the right things are done.”
