Uche Ikonne |
Finally the story is out that the Abia PDP governorship, Professor Uche Ikonne may not get the much expected endorsement from the Ukwa la Ngwa Council of Elders.
This group which originated, promoted and executed the another 8-year term for Ndi Ngwa was believed to be the arrow head for the emergence of Prof Ikonne. But unfolding developments have since rubbished the assumption.
Dailyledger.com.ng reports that cracks appeared in the Council as some overzealous PDP members who belong to the Ikonne camp muddled the waters by attempting to use the Council as a rubber stamp and adopt Ikonne prematurely without consideration for other governorship candidates of Ngwa extraction. This was contrary to the counsel of the Council's promoter and leader, Dr Max Nduaguibe.
Enyinnaya Nwafor |
Nduaguibe's position was for the Council to thread softly in adopting any of the Guber candidates of Ngwa extraction until appropriate discussions were had with them and the political atmosphere appropriately gauged
Dr Nduaguibe was to issue press statement days later where he admitted that there were indeed opportunists in the Council who are ready to milk political and financial gains from the project
'We believe that a true Elder should not prevaricate, show desperation or let selfish interest override group interest.", he maintained
According to him "The Committee of Eminent Personalities of the Ukwa La Ngwa Council of Elders met on the said 9th of August, 2022 with Engr. Enyinnaya Chima Nwafor of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) and Prof. Uche Eleazer Ikonne of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) out of the three Ngwa Candidates at the palace of Archbishop Isaac P. Nwaobia, the Anglican Archbishop of Aba Province
"At least 80% of these Eminent Personalities including Eric Acho Nwakanma praised the outstanding presentation made by Engr. Nwafor to the extent that if we had had a vote on that day, the confession of Prof. Ikonne about his preparedness to be Governor would have marred whatever chances he would have had, if we were to put him side by side with the brilliant performance of Engr. Nwafor. I had to take the hard decision deliberately to avoid putting our discussions into a vote postponing it to our next meeting which has not held to date.
"Of ourse, Engr. Nwafor, in the estimation of the majority of members of the Committee of Eminent Personalities was coherent, showed class, exuded preparedness and demonstrated absolute understanding of how a Governor could within the shortest possible time impact positively on the lives of the citizens to the extent that H.E.Eric Acho Nwakanma publicly confessed same", he stated.
7. Ordinarily, if the Council had any plans of endorsing a Candidate, it would obviously have been Engr. Nwafor.
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