The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Dunukofia State Constituency in the 2023 general elections, Cornel Ilokolobia, has given Senator Tony Nwoye seven days to apologize to Prince Arthur Eze for reportedly referring to him casually as “the man from Ukpo” in public gathering.
As a consequence, Ilokolobia has
Issued an ultimatum to Nwoye to withdraw the casual reference to the philanthropist within seven days or face the music.
Ilokolobia, a former Youth Leader of Dunukofia was reacting to Nwoye alleged comment in Abuja wherein the lawmaker reportedly “causally referenced Prince Arthur Eze as the man from Ukpo in his speech at the Anambra Town Hall meeting in Abuja”.
Reacting to a video making the rounds in that respect, Ilokolobian called on Senator Nwoye “to quickly tender unreserved apologies to Prince Engr Arthur Eze, Ndigbo and humanity for making a snide referencing to Eze “in the gathering of eminent personalities across Nigeria as if referencing a nobody and a man of no significance”.
Ilokolobia said it was no secrete that Eze spent over N10 billion on Nwoye’s political ambitions over time.
He said: “It is common knowledge that twice Prince Arthur Eze spent billions of naira on governorship election campaigns of Nwoye, labouring to make Sen Nwoye Anambra Governor. On those two occasions, Ndi Anambra and Nigerians knew that Prince Arthur Eze’s resources were the backbone of Sen Nwoye before he eventually won the House of Representatives seat and today’s Senate.”
“Sen Nwoye’s comment is a bad market for the youths as many benevolent spirits and personalities will now have second thought before helping young people.
“Those words are tagged ingratitude and some persons could be led to think that if Prince Arthur Eze can be shown such who are they and why will they spend resources to build young persons around them ?”
Insisting that Sen Nwoye’s words were not respectful, Ilokolobia promised to mobilize youths in Anambra State to protest and register their anger against Nwoye within the next seven days if he fails to apologize to Prince Engr Arthur Eze.
