Anambra 2021: APC, PDP, APGA in verbal war

CHAIRMEN of three leading political parties in Anambra State, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are locked in hot exchange of words over who succeeds the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano.

The state chairman of the APC, Chief Basil Ejidike, had declared that his party would stop at nothing in winning the governorship in Anambra come 2021.

His PDP counterpart, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu, in a chat with The Nation at the weekend, boastfully dismissed the APC , saying that the party had no place in the political equation of the state.

APGA chairman, Sir Norbert Obi, in a separate chat with The Nation, described both parties as jokers and confused.

Ejidike, the state’s APC chairman said: ” The Willie Obiano administration is just counting days and months and that will be the end of APGA in Anambra.

“We are not relying on what the Vice President; Prof Yemi Osinbajo said when he attended out round table summit at Prof Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Center in Awka. Our party has got it’s mojo back ”

“With our arrangements and inroads already in the state, APC will stop at nothing in making sure the state joins in the Next Level’ and we are ready and good to go. All the loopholes that had blocked the party from winning elections in the state are gradually being opened. Both PDP and APGA cannot stop the moving train.”

PDP chairman, Chief Nwobu said, “APGA should be following us and not us following them, the present administration in the state has collapsed completely and the people are suffering. The 2019 election has shown the pattern of interest Ndi Anambra in the PDP notwithstanding that we are not in power now at the center or in the state.

“I don’t want to talk about APC because they are not in the political space in Anambra. Their boast of taking over the state is a wishful thinking. Our people will never go back to kindergarten, they don’t have such capacity.”

The APGA chairman, Sir Norbert Obi said with what Governor Willie Obiano had already put in place in Anambra State, that it would be difficult for any other political parties to dislodge his party in the state. According to him: “We don’t believe in noise making, but in action.

APGA government has raised the bar of governance here and it will be a herculean task for any other party to take over the state.

“We are not relenting because we know all eyes are on APGA and the other parties are not happy and that is why the Obiano administration is not taking anything to chance in making sure that the people are happy.”