November 15, 2024
Theodore-orji

—–Another group says on equity it stands.

EMELAM UDO, UMUAHIA.

The Supreme Council of Ukwa Ngwa Youths, an umbrella body of all youths Association in Ngwa Nation has said that former Governor of the state and senator representing Abia Central senatorial zone, Theodore Ahamefula Orji’s stand on  power shift  to Abia North Senatorial zone is misleading and capable of disrupting the peaceful political atmosphere in the state.

They therefore advised Abians and the general public “to jettison the purported statement credited to Orji, describing it as unstatemanly and undemocratic for an individual to arrogate to himself the sole prerogative of determining the rotation of the office of the state governor.

In a press statement made available to news men in Umuahia, dated March 10, 2022, signed by the President General of the group, Dannie Ubani, and Secretary General, Chetachi Ahukanna, while made by the former in “ a meeting purportedly held at T.A Orji’s Umuahia residence which purportedly had in attendance representatives from the 17 LGAs” where he spoke in support of zoning the Governorship position to Abia North.

The group said that they were irked by the said statement, which they described as being in conflict with the provisions of Abia chatter of equity founded on two political blocks of Old Bende and Old Aba divisions.

“The Abia charter of equity was never in any manner founded, premised and anchored at the basis of Senatorial districts, they stated, adding that it  is never a creation of Abia charter of Equity,  “but a manipulative after thought of a tiny political incubus under the leadership of the then Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu”.

They alleged that Kalu aimed it at perpetuating his stranglehold on power at the expense of old Aba zone,  “which is in outright negation of the letters and spirit of Abia charter of equity”.

“The old Bende division held the governorship position for 16 uninterrupted years while the old Aba division would have had a mere 8 years stint at the completion of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s administration in 2023.

“Equity, good conscience natural justice and fair play demands that what is good for the goose should be equally good for the gander, especially where this gander is the chick that lays the golden egg for the entire Abia state.

“It is very unstatemanly and undemocratic for an individual to arrogate to himself the sole prerogative of determining the rotation of the office of the state governor

“Assuming without conceding that anybody has such powers, it should be the leader of the state, the Governor”, they declared.

They therefore advised Abians and the “general public to jettison the purported statement credited to Senator T.A.Orji as such is misleading and capable of disrupting the peaceful political atmosphere in the state”.

Reacting to the stand of T.A Orji, a pro- democracy commended the immediate past governor of the Abia state for endorsing power shift to Abia North in 2023.

The former Governor had in a meeting held in Umuahia with select delegates from the 17 LGAs declared that power should return to Abia North in line with the state’s charter of equity.

The pro-democracy group, Abia For Equity and sustained progress, said the senator has doused tension in the state.

According to the Chairman of the group, Goodluck Umunnakwe, TA Orji demonstrated that he is the truly the father of Equity in Abia.

He noted that Orji had as Governor championed the rotation of power to Abia south which enabled the emergence Okezie Ikpeazu as Governor.

“What Ochendo has done now is what he did in 2014. He insisted that power should move to Abia South. Today he has again pointed on the way to go. We should follow that way” he said.

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