A
new twist is about to unfold on the death of the late Eze Ndigbo, Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as the National Chairman of All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA) and close confidant of ex Biafran warlord, Chief
Victor Umeh has vowed to throw a bombshell on what he knows about his
death.
Umeh
said this while briefing newsmen on Sunday in Enugu over a recent claim
that himself and Governor Rochas Okorocha shunned a peace meeting held
recently in Awka, and blamed both Governor Obi and Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu
for the problem in APGA.
The
party chieftain who described the claims as an attempt to soil his name
and that of Owelle claimed that the late Igbo leader died as a result
of heart attack from some quarters.
He
has avowed to expose everything he knows about Ojukwu’s illness and
death once the one year remembrance of Ojukwu was done on November 26.
“Let
November 26 come and go and I will expose all of their activities as
they claim to be upholding the ideals of Ojukwu. “The way things are
going, very soon I will start granting interviews again to put things in
proper perspective both for Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, Governor Peter Obi, Dr.
Tim Menakaya; all of them that are destroying this party now; I will
come back to the public with their activities; with details one after
the other so that people will know what they are doing; It’s time for me
to expose everybody now; that time has come. “I take no blame for what
is happening; if there is any reconciliatory meeting, any meeting where
the progress of APGA will be discussed, that meeting should be properly
convened; people should be properly invited and notified, I will be the
first person to be there. “Because one after the other, I will look into
their faces and tell them what they have been doing, which I have
refused to tell the public. On the meeting, which he was reported to
have shunned, the APGA boss said he was surprised to read that a text
message was sent notifying him of the meeting:
“I
wish to state unequivocally that nobody sent me any text inviting me to
any meeting at Awka for the purpose of pursuing reconciliation in APGA.
Umeh who said he travelled to London on the November 2 to attend the
convention of the United Kingdom’s chapter of APGA and for the
celebration of Ojukwu’s birthday in Oxford said there was no indication
of such a meeting anywhere before he travelled. “I was therefore shocked
when I returned to read that I shunned an invitation for
reconciliation; nothing can be further from the truth.
“I
investigated into this and was told that when I traveled, Governor
Peter Obi on November 3 sent text messages inviting people to a
stakeholders meeting at Awka on Tuesday November 6; I was also shown a
text message sent to Governor Obi by Chief Chris Ejike Uche the APGA
Deputy National Chairman, South, informing him that he should shift the
meeting to Tuesday November 13, 2012 because, both myself and Governor
Okorocha had travelled to London and would come back on the 8th of
November; he went further to say that the meeting was sudden and there
was need for both myself and the Imo State governor to be in attendance”
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