|
Obasanjo behind terrorism in Anambra - Chekwas
Okorie
tayo elebijo
correspondent
Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance Party
(APGA) Chief Chekwas Okorie, has accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of sponsoring terrorism in Anambra State.
The APGA chairman who spoke with Saturday
Independent over
the telephone while reacting to Tuesday’s bomb blast in the Anambra State
Governor’s lodge, said “the president holds the key to peace in Anambra
but has refused to use it.”
He continued: “Obasanjo is sponsoring terrorism
in Anambra and Igboland and has refused to bring peace to the state though the
key is with him.”
Okorie who emphatically asked “will you be bold
enough to quote me?” also said that “President Obasanjo should know
that whatever goes around comes around”, stressing that the only person
who has the key to peace is Anambra and Igboland is President Obasanjo.
The bomb blast, which ravaged a portion of the fence
bordering the governor’s lodge was alleged to have been planted by
unknown persons who escaped through the Obibia stream located 80 metres from
the governor’s lodge.
No life was however lost and no injury was recorded
as in a similar incident which occurred on Monday when yet to be identified
persons opened fire at Governor
Chris Ngige’s convoy on his way to the state broadcasting corporation to
receive the Senate committee members who were on a fact-finding mission on the
extent of damage after hoodlums went on rampage on Thursday and Friday last
week.
However, President Obasanjo, who was speaking on a
monthly live radio programme, the President Explains had said there was a moral question
to the happenings in the state.
He said “there is a great case of morality in
Anambra which people do not look at. As long as a country continues to put
truth in disfavour, as it becomes our greatest dilemma today, we will be
wallowing in lies, deceit, shame, disgrace and underdevelopment.”
Obasanjo promised that, “the cases of the
Plateau State Governor, Chief Joshua Dariye and the Anambra State Governor, Dr.
Chris Ngige will not be left lying low.
The president had criticised the governors whom he
said were hiding under the cover of constitutional immunity.
|
