Unpopular Minister of External Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama was humiliated in his Eke ward in Udi LGA of Enugu where his candidate scored just one vote.
But the Minister who had a plan B hijacked the process and ensured that the result sheets never got to the wards as he allegedly connived with the Congress Committee to manipulate the outcome of the ward Congress in the state.
In a peaceful and well attended ward Congress across the 260 wards of the state EverydayNews reports that no result sheet was available to record the outcome of the exercise.
Reacting to the situation which is threatening the peace in the party, the Chairman State Caretaker Committee of the party Dr. Ben Nwoye accused the Chairman of the Congress Committee of being bought over.
Hear him; “I am proud of members of the APC in Enugu, they turned out en masse and elected their lewders.
“But for whatever reason the man sent to monitor the Congress from Abuja, the chairman of Congress Committee Dr. Ijeoma Arodiogbu kept the result sheets and other sensitive materials to himself.
“Unfortunately Sunday night I learnt they were busy at the South East Secretariat, they highered some people and where busy writing fake names of people who did not participate in the Congress as winners.
“But by the grace of God you can’t bury the truth. If you do it, in time, it will self exhume. And by the grace of God we have a man who is an astute leader at the helms of affairs of APC; so we are gathering the evidence of the Congress.
“Because when I was called and they said they were not going to start until result sheets come in, I directed them to start. Those authorized to go to the 260 wards are not the seven man panel; they don’t have the ability. In line with instructions from the National Secretariat I authorized the local Committees to start and conduct the Congress; but they should document it. Document their results, the events with video and they did.
“Starting from Eke ward, those favoured by certain powers scored one vote as against the people’s choice who scored over 1000 votes to other wards of some other big men. It was shown on NTA and other stations.
“There were some big men busy writing results at the South East Secretariat; we have those on record and at the end justice will prevail.
“Those who won are celebrating because they won; those writing results in piece of paper, they don’t know that in party it’s human beings you use. Those who are calling people to bring people and boasting they want to install a state Chairman by writing names. They want to hold the ward structure so they can install a fake State Chairman.
“They will find out that in APC under my leadership in Enugu State justice always prevails. We are determined people. We are the founders of this party. Those who joined us because they felt some injustices had been done to them by their former party PDP, they are now here to met out the same iniquities and injustices they claimed to run away from. We will resist it and we have resisted it.
“We have Congress results, they are on video tapes. Journalists monitored and reported it; INEC monitored all and INEC have their report. So it’s shame on the Chairman of the committee; he is a medical doctor who swore the hypocritic oath; he breached it. Because instead of saving lives he came into Enugu State to kill people’s politcial lives.
“The young man who believes he can go round and commit injustice from state to state for financial gain; Enugu State will be his last stop. We are going to show him that we are Wawa people; he may be looking down on us because he came down here and showed us the 260 summary sheets, 7,207 sheets; packed it up and left with it. And sold it to the highest bidder.
“We are Wawa people we don’t back down; we don’t shift; our ancestors are warriors but we don’t just go to war. It’s a mind game and he will find out why Wawa people are special breed of all the Igbo species.
“We have temperament to absorb. He may think he has hit us hard and ran away; but we are resilient. And tomorrow those who won the election will be at the party Secretariat to celebrate their victory.”
