Nigeria Newsday Exclusive: Dora Akunyili & Gov. Peter Obi Are Hypocrites– Dr. Chris Ngige

In his first post-election interview, senator-elect and former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige described the negative campaign waged against him by the trio of Gov. Peter Obi, Mrs. Dora Akunyili and APGA chairman, Mr. Victor Umeh as vicious and hypocritical. Dr. Ngige took exception at the attempt by Gov. Obi and Dora Akunyili to paint his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a Yoruba party.
In his first post-election interview, senator-elect and former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige described the negative campaign waged against him by the trio of Gov. Peter Obi, Mrs. Dora Akunyili and APGA chairman, Mr. Victor Umeh as vicious and hypocritical. Dr. Ngige took exception at the attempt by Gov. Obi and Dora Akunyili to paint his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a Yoruba party.

“That was the level of pettiness the APGA people descended to,” Dr. Ngige said in an exclusive interview with www.Nigerianewsday.com. “Can you imagine a former Minister for Information who claimed to have “rebranded” Nigeria as a country of “good people and great nation” engaging in tribal politics? They fanned the embers of tribal and religious politics thinking that the people would be taken in by these sentiments. APGA, which they call Igbo party, has no structure in the neighboring Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia states.”

Dr. Ngige went on to say that, “They have no single seat in the out-going Houses of Assembly in those states, but ACN, which they tag “Yoruba Party,” has members in the Houses of Assembly in Plateau, Adamawa, Edo and even Jigawa states. So how could Peter Obi and Dora Akunyili (a Minister in charge of “rebranding” Nigeria) tag ACN a “Yoruba party”? Don’t forget that the ACN that is in power in Lagos State appointed an Igbo man from Anambra State (Ben Akabueze) as its Commissioner for Economic Development. Peter Obi, who is in the forefront of this cheap campaign, has 95% of his businesses located in Lagos and made all his money as a “Lagos-based” business tycoon. The billions of naira he claimed to have made as a businessman were substantially made in Lagos, the heartland of Yorubaland. So to answer your question, ACN is not a Yoruba party. It is a party for “doers” and “performers.” Today, the party has secured more seats in Anambra, Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Taraba, Jigawa and Cross River States in the legislative elections.”

Dr. Ngige described the senatorial contest experience as that of a lone wrester fighting three opponents at once. According to Dr. Ngige, Mrs. Akunyili was backed by Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra State and APGA Chairman Mr. Victor Umeh both of whom hailed from the same town as Mrs. Akunyili.

“The senatorial contest was like a wrestling match where one wrestler was facing a tag team of three other wrestlers,” Dr. Ngige told Nigeria Newsday. “As one of the three got tired, another was tagged to come into the ring and continue the fight, while the others rested, and it went on like that. As the fight progressed the three were simultaneously fighting the lone opponent who stood like a rock of Gibraltar unscathed. That was the scenario in the senatorial contest. It was by the Grace of God and the wisdom of our people, that I, the lone wrestler, got the energy and strength to withstand the rampaging and vicious tag team of Peter Obi, Dora Akunyili and Victor Umeh.”

Dr. Ngige accused Gov. Peter Obi of engaging in negative campaign. He particularly frowned at Gov. Obi’s attempt to label Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, as a Yoruba party.

The sudden pumping in of money into the race by Gov. Peter Obi received the greatest condemnation of Dr. Ngige. “The amount of money the Anambra State government deployed in the Anambra central senatorial race just to humiliate me in the election was enough to settle the salary and wages of judiciary and health workers whose industrial actions had led to the closure of Anambra state courts and the state’s hospitals and maternities for more than three months.”

Dr. Ngige described his legislative interest as in the areas of “war against corruption, electoral reforms, administration of justice and job creation.” For his constituency, he hoped to ensure that long taunted federal projects like the Oji River power station, second Niger Bridge, the rehabilitation of Enugu-Onitsha Expressway amongst others, finally received the funding needed to accomplish them. He also wants to work on the creation of another state in the South-East zone to achieve equity and justice and the inclusion of Anambra State on the list of oil producing states on account of the large oil deposits in the Omambala River basin of Anambra State.

In all, Dr. Ngige gave the election an average mark. “I will rate the election as 50% successful. There is still lots of work to be done to reform the electoral process. The rigging structure of the previous regime in INEC is still in place, and as long as the undesirable elements of that regime remain in the system, the mission of the present management to enthrone free and fair election in Nigeria will remain a pipe dream.”

For the full interview, please visit: http://nigerianewsday.com/menu/columns/guest-of-the-week/169-obi-and-dora-tag-acn-qyoruba-partyq

Playing the tribal card digusts me. Spits!

If this is true, I am highly disappointed.

Same applies to Tinubu or Atiku if they’ve done anything similar.

Image laundering to deceive Nigerians again?

These politicians are prostitutes.

No videos of the incident, no newspaper reported it, nobody heard it said even inside his bedroom, but people will be here to address an empty comment.


We are voting for Peter Obi. No going back.

Always writing nonesense, peter Obi this, peter Obi that. Manufacturing non-existing stories just to discredit who wants to make your life better. Continue, but let me tell you, no form of publicity is a bad publicity. You are promoting him without knowing. It will make more people to know him, then they will research about him and will find out that what you wrote is not true, they will also see the many good things about him and will become Obidient. Please don't stop.

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Paid Lies and propagandas. Peter Obi is not perfect but never tribalistic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxB4l3_sWtA

As expected, no one is addressing the issue. They’re just bringing up appeals to emotional sentiments that Peter Obi is “attacked”

Answer the damn question or keep shut.

If it’s Tinubu or Atiku, these same hypocrites will speedily like the post.

Is it a curse to think critically in Nigeria and ask probing questions?

PraizHim:
Paid Lies and propagandas. Peter Obi is not perfect but never tribalistic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxB4l3_sWtA

In other words, are you saying Dr Ngige lied against Peter Obi for saying he was campaigning under a “Yoruba party (ACN)” at the time?

Peter Obi never played the tribal card in that election?

PresidObi:
No videos of the incident, no newspaper reported it, nobody heard it said even inside his bedroom, but people will be here to address an empty comment.


We are voting for Peter Obi. No going back.

Nigeria Newsday that granted an interview to Ngige is what exactly?

OkCornel:


Nigeria Newsday that granted an interview to Ngige is what exactly?

Video of him saying anything against anyone in his life?

None.

OkCornel:


In other words, are you saying Dr Ngige lied against Peter Obi for saying he was campaigning under a “Yoruba party (ACN)” at the time?

Peter Obi never played the tribal card in that election?

Ngige is a known international Liar. Check out his lies and propagandas against ASUU in this ongoing ASUU strike.

He plays the victim card all the time.

A man of his words.

Tribal card
Are Ngige and obi not both igbos?
The kind threads we see everyday on nairaland eh

PraizHim:


Ngige is a known international Liar. Check out his lies and propagandas against ASUU in this ongoing ASUU strike.

He plays the victim card all the time.

Did Peter Obi call ACN a Yoruba party? Yes or No. Simple question

agadez007:
Tribal card
Are Ngige and obi not both igbos?
The kind threads we see everyday on nairaland eh

I’ll bring you up to speed.

Ngige contested for Anambra governor under ACN. The issue here is Ngige accused Peter Obi of painting ACN as a Yoruba party, to dissuade voters from voting for Ngige.

umunaija:
Always writing nonesense, peter Obi this, peter Obi that. Manufacturing non-existing stories just to discredit who wants to make your life better. Continue, but let me tell you, no form of publicity is a bad publicity. You are promoting him without knowing. It will make more people to know him, then they will research about him and will find out that what you wrote is not true, they will also see the many good things about him and will become Obidient. Please don't stop.

Same I told some folks, that most of the negative news will help him because his supporters have refused to thin out.

Now I understand why Nigerians deserve whatever they get.

People hardly think critically and ask questions.

Same way they all foolishly fell for Jonathan and Buhari.

Anyways, I hope the next 4-8 years won’t be another waste of time in addition to the the 23 years counting from 1999.

Don’t ask questions o, feel free to follow the crowd foolishly.

Obi and his Zombidient displaced IPOB touts are truly a tribalistic Igbo movement.

Ngige said it all about Obi and how he uses ethnic divisions as a political strategy .

Already we are seeing it being displayed with the Zionist goat supporters telling us to support Obi because he is the only Southern Christian in the race.

I keep saying it that a vote for Obi is a vote for an Igbo agenda.

PresidObi:
No videos of the incident, no newspaper reported it, nobody heard it said even inside his bedroom, but people will be here to address an empty comment.


We are voting for Peter Obi. No going back.

The more you louts post lame defenses for your OSU candidate, the more we see him as a fraud .

Oga @OP

We are voting Peter Obi… nothing will make us go back to our oppressors… NOTHING!!!

We are no longer in love with our oppressors.

We are voting ObiDatti…

That’s final!

PraizHim:
Paid Lies and propagandas. Peter Obi is not perfect but never tribalistic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxB4l3_sWtA

It was Ngige who reported it.

So what's there in what you posted? Because he fed flooded people before returning them back to their Kogi town?

The sudden pumping in of money into the race by Gov. Peter Obi received the greatest condemnation of Dr. Ngige. “The amount of money the Anambra State government deployed in the Anambra central senatorial race just to humiliate me in the election was enough to settle the salary and wages of judiciary and health workers whose industrial actions had led to the closure of Anambra state courts and the state’s hospitals and maternities for more than three months.”

Wicked selfish bastard who saw Anambra allocations as his personal money to invest in his personal business enterprises.

lexxwiz:
Oga @OP

We are voting Peter Obi… nothing will make us go back to our oppressors… NOTHING!!!

We are no longer in love with our oppressors.

We are voting ObiDatti…

That’s final!

Did I say you should not vote Obi?

Did he play tribal card on Ngige calling the ACN a Yoruba party? Yes or No.

OkCornel:


I’ll bring you up to speed.

Ngige contested for Anambra governor under ACN. The issue here is Ngige accused Peter Obi of painting ACN as a Yoruba party, to dissuade voters from voting for Ngige.

Bro you don’t know Ngige more than I do,And I supported Ngige against Obi and obiano because he is my kinsman
Obi never said anything of such,you should know that during elections people say all sort of things to castigate the other candidate,the same way Ngige accused Obi and his escorts of killing worshippers in adoration ground Uke,eventhough I was present in the vigil that very day and nothing of such happened

If he did,there would be a video evidence to back it up

Even before this revelation I have always calling him the father of tribalism. Such a person will not rule this country.

OkCornel:
Playing the tribal card digusts me. Spits!

If this is true, I am highly disappointed.

Same applies to Tinubu or Atiku if they’ve done anything similar.

Image laundering to deceive Nigerians again?

These politicians are prostitutes.

Is Ngige not Igbo, just like what is going on now, you can't stop party supporters from saying all sort of things, for example, can APGA win a governorship election in SW even if the candidate is the most qualified, they will ever tag him with a name, or his party or even his supporters.

Imagine, APC tagged PO ipob, PDP tagged him anti massob, both PDP and APC tagged the supporters Ipob and toxic, APC tagging the supporters Igbo but have you heard Atiku and Tinubu say that, NO.
Obi never said that to Ngige, all these are propaganda.

agadez007:
Bro you don’t know Ngige more than I do,And I supported Ngige against Obi and obiano because he is my kinsman
Obi never said anything of such,you should know that during elections people say all sort of things to castigate the other candidate,the same way Ngige accused Obi and his escorts of killing worshippers in adoration ground Uke,eventhough I was present in the vigil that very day and nothing of such happened

If he did,there would be a video evidence to back it up

Ok, noted. Did Peter Obi or Akunyili deny the allegations though?

mycar:

Is Ngige not Igbo, just like what is going on now, you can't stop party supporters from saying all sort of things, for example, can APGA win a governorship election in SW even if the candidate is the most qualified, they will ever tag him with a name, or his party or even his supporters.

Imagine, APC tagged PO ipob, PDP tagged him anti massob, both PDP and APC tagged the supporters Ipob and toxic, APC tagging the supporters Igbo but have you heard Atiku and Tinubu say that, NO.
Obi never said that to Ngige, all these are propaganda.

Ok, noted. Did Peter Obi or Akunyili deny the allegations though?

OkCornel:


Ok, noted. Did Peter Obi or Akunyili deny the allegations though?

There are some things you don't pay attention to, he has never been confronted with it else he would have said his own side of the story, besides, where is the video evidence.
Just like you, is it everything said about you that you go on arguing over especially when it is coming from a loser.
Declaimer: in politics, people say different thing just to deceive the gullible ones.
I have never heard Peter obi say that but I am hundred percent sure that some PDP and apga members must have said something like that for ACN since it was only in the SW then just as people would have said that Apga is an Igbo party.
Which is true. I hate it too but I see beyond that as an enlightened person who have worked with different people from different countries and ethnic backgrounds. We are all human being for crying out loud.
Nobody chooses where he or she was born.
You didn't chose who you are, you could have been from us or Canada. People should put emotion aside and do the right thing.

OkCornel:


Ok, noted. Did Peter Obi or Akunyili deny the allegations though?

there are things you hear about yourself outside and you just leave it that way because when you respond,some people will take it as if you accepted you did
I hope you are asking to learn and not to troll ?

. Peter Obi, who is in the forefront of this cheap campaign, has 95% of his businesses located in Lagos and made all his money as a “Lagos-based” business tycoon. The billions of naira he claimed to have made as a businessman were substantially made in Lagos, the heartland of Yorubaland.

I stopped reading after I got to the bolded, it speaks volume and such volume has the signature of a Yoruba man whenever they want to spread propaganda against an igbo man.

Even if Ngige want to challenge Obi, Ngige wouldn't mention such rubbish..

And Obi wouldn't stoop low to use people when he can vehemently ditch Ngige with Educational values.

This is not a region where the title of prof. Dr. Are not regarded in esteem.
So an enlightened word will enlightened others

Yoruba propaganda media uses this rubbish cause it was Obi, which propaganda will they have use if it Ngige

agadez007:
there are things you hear about yourself outside and you just leave it that way because when you respond,some people will take it as if you accepted you did
I hope you are asking to learn and not to troll ?

I am asking for truth’s sake.