Date Published: 03/09/10
Who and What is Joe Igbokwe fighting for?
Mr. Joe Igbokwe is the publicity secretary of Lagos State
Action Congress. He is a prolific writer. That he is from Anambra must have
made him to be interested in what was the outcome of the last gubernatorial
elections in Anambra State. He has put up spirited argument to proof that
governor Peter Obi of APGA was the winner, as according to him, the election
was peaceful, free and fair. He tried to circulate his
perceived feeling through the media that were ready to receive his articles.
But whatever the problem he had with his party’s (AC’s) gubernatorial
candidate
for that election, Dr. Chris Ngige, he has gone too far to ignore the
truth in
his write-up.
As intelligent as he is, one expects him not to be anti-party
in any form. He should have considered that even if the election was peaceful
because Anambra people decided it should be so in order for the State to
be in
peace, it was not totally peaceful because many were wounded as recorded; it
was not free because many were disenfranchised and it was not fair
because Obi did not record the constitutional mandatory cut-across score
of 25%
in at least two-thirds of the number of LGAs in Anambra State. Forget the
afterthought of INEC and Obi’s employed mathematicians like the one at the
University of Lagos whose coloured advertisements in the print media are
known
to have been sponsored by Obi.
Therefore it should have occurred to Joe Igbokwe that for
fair and free exercise, there should be a peaceful run-off. What is Obi
afraid
of regarding this; after all he achieved through tribunal even when INEC
supported Ngige in 2003, and therefore Obi should allow tribunal to determine
this.
Let the rumour making the rounds now about Igbokwe’s
relationship with Obi not turn to reality. From the grapevine, it is being
said
that once Obi gets inaugurated in March, he would re-jig his cabinet to
include
one or two nominees from Mr. Joe Igbokwe. Time shall tell.
Obidigbo Mgbachi
59 Market Road
Ekwulobia, Anambra State
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