source elombah.com

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state
signed a pact with the late Ikemba, Chief
Emeka Odumegu-Ojukwu, to support a
person from Ojukwu’s home town of Nnewi
as his successor.

Four high chiefs from Obi’s home town,
Agulu, Anaocha LGA, have therefore cried
out to the out-going Governor that it
would be unconscionable and condemnable
of him to whimsically renege on the
promise he made to the supreme Igbo
leader who had against all odds convinced
the Anambra people to vote in Obi as
Governor eight years ago.

The chiefs told journalists in Agulu, on
Wednesday that there was an agreement
between Ojukwu and Obi. The chiefs, Ozo
Ebubeagu Onyedibe, Ichie Hon. Anthony
Oguejiofor, Sir Chief Chistopher
Chukwuemeka Diliinye, and Chief Ichie
Julius Iloh, said that they were disturbed
that the binding pact that Obi made with
Ojukwu, has been reneged upon simply
because Ojukwu is now dead. They said
they were not only present when Obi made
that statement but that day they were
actually the ones who spoke on Obi’s
behalf because “he is a small boy and
should not be heard when real elders are
talking”. So that day we were the ones who
spoke on his behalf, we asked Ojukwu to
support our son, Peter Obi, who is from our
home town of Agulu. The respected
Ikemba, may his souls rest in perfect peace
agreed to our demands and promised to
openly ask Anambra people to vote Obi in
as governor just for his, Ojukwu’s own
sake. It is on record that Ojukwu made that
request; and because Ndi-Igbo could not
say no to the great warrior and uncommon
leader who sacrificed everything for his
beloved people, Ndi-Igbo, Obi was voted in
as Governor”.

Onyedibe, the Head of Ozo Ezeana
Obeneshi Agulu, who spoke for the group
said that it was also on record that Ojukwu
asked that Obi should work for an Nnewi
person to succeed him, and only after that
should the needed rotation among the
various peoples of the state continue. It
was based on that firm pact which Obi
swore to and sealed before a man that is
now among the ancestors that he
nominated an Nnewi woman Dame Virgy
Etiaba to be his Deputy-Governor with the
full understanding that Obi would not seek
a second term but leave office after four
years single tenure.

“Now, Obi has served for two terms
instead of one, but it is his promise to
Ojukwu, which was renewed during his
quest for a second term, that bothers us.

If he wants to break it by supporting Willie
Obiano of his All Progressive Grand Alliance
party, we want to say that as old men, we
cannot join him in hiding, disrespecting and
desecrating the truth. We are titled elders
and so we are not supposed to lie, and Obi
knows that I am telling the truth. I also
had believed that Obi as a Governor and a
very religious Catholic should have no
problem with keeping his promises –
especially those made to a dead man who
is no longer here to ask him any questions
or state his own side of the story.

Sincerely, people should not tell lies against
the dead, and promises made to anybody,
whether living or dead, but more so the
dead, them should be respected”.

Everyday, it seems the dead who have no use for politics or a good life hold the living to ransom! Shouldn't blackmail be a capital offence??

so na ifeanyi ubah wey nnewi pple fit produce. I dont think ojukwu would have supported him.

anambras shul move forward, woteva ojukwu culd av done 4 ibos is highly apreciatd bt dat doesnt mean dat even at death he shuld dictate 4 igbo nation. d ibos has highly rated men n women wit fresh ideas n inovation 2 take igbo nation 2 d next level.

If I clealy remember, Ojukwu's political 'last wish' was for Anambrarians to vote in Peter Obi for second term.

mekaboy: so na ifeanyi ubah wey nnewi pple fit produce. I dont think ojukwu would have supported him.

you spoke well

It's honourable for people to keep to agreement, it is unfair and disgusting if we suport anybody that breakes agreement just because it favoured us. What if we are at the recieving end? Are will gonna suport that any agreement should be broken against us.