The All Progressives Congress, (APC) Abia State, has said it rejected
the re-nomination of Mr. Nwogu Nwogu as the State’s representative in
the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board, because he failed
to attract any benefit to the state during his first tenure.
The party described as laughable the solidarity protest staged by some
persons in support of the Nwogu, stressing that Abia lost many
opportunities in the former Board due to alleged incompetence of the
state representative.
State Publicity Secretary of the party in the State, Comrade Ben Godson,
challenged the nominated member and the protesters to identify at least
a project he attracted to the oil producing Ukwa land and Abia State in
his previous tenure.
He alleged that the nominee is not known you the party in the State and
didn’t support APC candidates in the 2019 general elections.
In his words, “We’ve grown above the stage where people rent miscreants
to influence the reality. If Nwogu Nwogu is truly a member of APC and a
well meaning Abia man, what he should do is to consult the party
leadership led by Honourable Donatus Nwamkpa to know why he was
rejected.
“We expected him to at least list his achievements in his tenure as Abia
state Commissioner in NDDC.Under Nwogu Nwogu as NDDC commissioner,
ordinary NDDC water hyacinth project was not given to Abia youths
because the man doesn’t know anything about the position he was placed
in.
“Is it by renting miscreants to make him look relevant? Ukwa and Abia
state in general will continue to suffer from terrible representation by
a man who has no capacity to occupy such position. The APC will never
tolerate mediocrity. We can never allow Abia to continue to be like this
while we have oil. We’ve suffered so much from terrible representation
in the NDDC and are determined to make a change and take Abia to the
next level.
“And we must end such because it is hampering our progress. It is also a
pity that some persons who should speak out no matter their party
affiliations are keeping quiet.
“They are watching those who have no stake neither in Abia nor in Ukwa
to claim to be speaking for the people. We as a party reiterate that Mr.
Nwogu Nwogu is not known to us and failed in his previous tenure and
should go and rest. What some of them don’t know is that Federal
Government is already aware that some persons don’t want our people to
see anything good about the APC led administration in the centre and
they want to achieve this by sending mediocres to represent the people
under our great party.
“We started correcting the mistake against this towards the ending of
the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari and in this second tenure
we’ve succeeded in correcting that and we shall continue to do so. No
matter the level of blackmail.”