By Our correspondent
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Ikenna Egbuna and candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the Onitsha North and South Federal Constituency in the last general election, Hon. Chugbo Enwezo have joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State.
Chief Egbuna, who has never publicly joined any political party, had sometime in the past contested the Onitsha South Local Government Chairmanship position as an independent Candidate, and later faced his legal practice.
However, Hon. Enwezor, was a two-time former Anambra State House Assembly member, who after eight year in office contested for Onitsha North and South Federal Constituency seat in the last general election as APGA candidate.
Also a former member of Anambra State House of Assembly and a chieftain of APC who left the party to contest s position in the last election was received back in the party.
The two are successful Onitsha based legal practitioners who have made their marks in legal practice and in defence of human rights. They were received during the Mini Rally organized by the Chairman of APC in Onitsha North, led by Hon. Ezennia Chuka Ojekwe.
The rally had in attendance the Chairman of APC, Chief Basil Ejidike, represented by Anambra Central Zonal Vice Chairman of APC, Chief Augustine Azubike Muomife, and State Welfare Officer of APC, Hon. Ekene Okafor, and Onitsha North Secretary of the party Hon.Victor Elem, and others.
Addressing the party faithful, Chief Egbuna, SAN, said that he has represented some members of the party in the election tribunal and assured that with his presence, the party will no longer suffer legal intimidation in the state.
He said that he will contribute his quota in ensuring the growth of the party and to unseat APGA government in the next governorship election in the state.
Hon Enwezor, in his speech said that his decision to join APC is to ensure that the state is a strong player in the national political space, adding that only people who are present on the table when things are shared get their own shares.
According to him, “APGA will not lead us to anywhere. We must stop thinking that APC belongs to any tribe in Nigeria. APC is the party of everybody in Nigeria, not for Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or any tribe but for all of us.
“The time when we were brainwashed with the claim that APGA is for us has gone. If we continue to stay in APGA we will not go far in national politics. If you are not at the sharing table, you cannot get anything.
“APGA does not cross the Niger Bridge. Soludo will leave APGA with time. Peter Obi ruled under APGA and left for PDP before joining Labour Party, LP, Willie Obiano, has ruled under APGA and left, are you seeing him in APGA events, the incumbent Governor will do the same at the appropriate time. Dr George Moghalu became NIWA MD, because he is in APC.
“We are coming to fortify the party and to take over the govermorship seat at Agu Awka. Henceforth, APC will win all the elections in Onitsha and the State in general. We must all join hands to lift the party, old members should not be intimidated by our coming, the party is too big for all to participate, unity and oneness is what we need to win the state.
Earlier in his address, the Onitsha North Chairman of APC Ezennia Chuka Ojekwe, said, ” It has become very imperative for Igbo nation to join main stream politics and they can only do that through joining APC, the ruling party.”
“We are not here for lengthy talk, but to take a strong resolve of taking the gospel of renewed hope to all the Wards, the nooks and crannies of Igbo land. It is on this note that I appeal to party members to eschew bitterness and forgive one another, let us cease counting mistakes of the past.”
