B.B. APUGO: FACE OF A SENILE AND SELFISH OLD MAN
Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.
Nenia Campbell had B.B. Apugo in mind when in mere sequence of reminiscences gave that rendition that perfectly fits the description of the man who swore on the altar of insanity that no other Ibeku man would rise above him. For those who do not know him, B.B. Apugo is an Ibeku (Umuahia, Abia State) born ritualist who is married to over twenty wives, whose major source of livelihood was feeding fat on government money.
Apugo had taken pages of newspaper recently to declare that PDP, a party he is still a sitting BoT member is Dead. People who hardly know him, those who do not know his root and evil foundation may have branded him a Saint. Truth is, Apugo (Ochiagha Ibeku) is growing senile and lacks the moral justification to call PDP or anyother names.
In the first place, a real man of honor would have celebrated his resignation on grounds of principle. Apugo cannot resign from membership of PDP’s BoT. Government and indeed politics are his major sources of income. It is therefore annoying ostrich introversion and childishness for him to promote public outcry against a Party that had given him life. I dare B.B. Apugo to leave PDP. He lacks honor, integrity and dignity to so act. PDP is his life and any attempt to disengage would mean his requiem.
Today, T.A. Orji is not a good man because he virtually refused to jollof with the wicked Apugo. T.A. Orji is bad because he refused to be cajoled into arm twisting the people, which is Apugo’s stock in trade. Apugo was a worse parasite, a worse hanger on, a worse politician until T.A. Orji cut the cord that linked urchins like him with the government and people. His grouse is not unconnected to the pariah status accorded him by the present administration in Abia State.
Apugo’s sins are too many as he virtually; albeit criminally acquired almost 80% of the land in Ibeku. He kills; maims and destroys anyone who dares to challenge him. The death of Nnamdi Eboh (Eboh Cold Stores) is still fresh in our memories. Apugo killed Eboh over a piece of land and in the extended fear that Eboh was rising to be known above him. Apugo would not hear of any such thing and like a moving train; he crushes anything or person that stands in his way. He was the same man who knocked down a building close to him for the simple reason that the house was virtually overlooking his and suggested he was an inferior personality to that of his neighbor. Meanwhile, the perimeter fencing of his residence is taller than that of Kirikiri. The only thing to deduce from this picture is that, long before now; Apugo had imprisoned himself obviously to stay away from the very many widows, businessmen, associates and kinsmen whose properties and wives he fraudulently acquired.
NICON Insurance is still an existing corporate entity . NICON is one of the biggest victims of the fraud called B.B. APUGO. If you go to Ogurube Layout in Umuahia, you would be greeted by a gigantic structure abandoned by this large insurance firm. Maverick Apugo had issued them with fake documents and a strong word of mouth to develop the area belonging to him. They paid him and concluded all the traditional rites including a gift of SEVEN COWS befitting for an OCHIAGHA (Ochiagha my foot). Just mid way into the development, Ochiagha played his popular script of surprise and attack; dragging NICON to court for trespassing on his property. The court awarded damages in excess of N500m. That was how NICON ceased to exist in Umuahia till date. What manner of man! He is so gluttonous that he could be described as the proverbial hunter who hangs on his neck, shoulders, straps at his back and still struggles to trample some with his feet. That is the definition of greed.
Only a fool would take Apugo serious. Here is a man who does not see his children eye ball to eye ball. Their (especially the males) offence was their blunt refusal to be initiated into his cult from where he administers wickedness. Apugo should tell us the possibility of making sense to the outside world when his family appears to be a simplified picture of Afghanistan. Here was a man who also sent thugs to knock down the house of his first son, who he accused of daring to rise above him. True to type, the youngman mobilized his own thugs to fight his father to finish. Shameless Apugo was forced to retreat when he realized that his son, his carbon copy had equally learnt his ways of immeasurable wickedness.
Apugo should be thankful to T.A. Orji for being a father to his children who he literally disowned for not adopting his fetish inclinations. He should be thankful to God and OCHENDO for appointing his first son, the General manager of Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) and offering the others a new lease of life. Anybody who has Apugo as a father is definitely fatherless and would not be missing anything good about him. If Apugo would controvert this statement, let him tell the world the state of his family, his line of business and the relationship between him and his children.
Before you think I am crying foul, let me take you to the world of B.B. Apugo. Remember African Continental Bank (ACB)? Bank NDIGBO, the bank Nnamdi Azikiwe fashioned to alleviate the sufferings of teeming Igbo Youths who were within employable age but were not taken by most industries and banks at the time. B.B Apugo in the 80s, borrowed huge sum of money from ACB with his B.B Apugo & Sons (?) LTD. When he failed to repay the loan, the bank dragged him to court. To the Bank’s utmost chargrin, his B.B Apugo company had long been liquidated, declared bankrupt and unable to repay the loan. That was how cunning the man was. In his argument, his dead company and not him was owing the bank.To add salt to injury, he in turn sued ACB to court for daring to suggest in a newspaper (Sunday Statesman 20/8/1983) publication that he lacked in integrity and not fit a person. The Court awarded him N10m. You will help me to judge what ACB would have left after paying this criminal N10m as at 1983. That was the end of ACB. ACB closed shop and threw thousand of Igbos to the labour market and left them at the mercy of hunger and starvation. Apugo thus started his life on obtaining by false pretence and fraud. See B.B. Apugo VS ACB.
He boasted in his recent interview that he has no business with Government contract. To the extent that T.A. Orji his kinsman has caged him thus far; that may be correct. But, let B.B. Apugo recollect that Ogbonnaya Onu virtually lived in his house while he was Governor of Abia State. Apugo at the time called the shots and determined who gets what. Ditto Orji Uzor Kalu who accepted to align to his fetish inclinations. Apugo should tell us what happened to the famous OJUKWU BUNKER at Umuahia. That edifice ought to be a Grade A tourist centre, returning millions in investment to the Federal Government that owns it and by extension, Abia that is playing host to it. Again, he originated wonder documents suggesting that the land upon which the property is situate belongs to him having lost same in the era of ABANDONED PROPERTY. As I write, that property is owned by B.B. Apugo. In his greed, selfishness and wickedness; he hoodwinked OUK and the Tourism Minister in 2002 to take over a property built with tax payers money. Apugo connived with his cronies in government to get that property at in the most fraudulent manner. Let him tell us his other virile businesses other than feeding fat on the government.
If I am asked to counsel B.B. Apugo in one terse sentence. I would have reminded him what Mahatma Gandhi said: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Apugo should take a long dive to oblivion and spare us his rantings. When the history of the Igbo race would be written, he would be reserved one of the darkest corners because his life had long been smeared by blood and scarlet.

Wow this was really scary, I've met two of his sons before, they seemed really nice...but you never no I know one thing though, I will never cross the Apugo's

She has a good daughter that is my friend. She is a very smart girl. So he has a good gene. His daughter Uche is very smart when we were together in banking. We still do business together . Very smart girl.