Daily Independent Online.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004.
Ngige, Uba for July 10 rally
• Obi Okoye pledges loyalty for Ngige
By Okey Maduforo
Correspondent, Awka
There are very strong indications that
Anambra State Governor, Dr Chris Ngige, and his estranged godfather, Chief
Chris Uba, would be at a rally to mark one year of the Anambra crisis, which
started on July 10, last year.
This is coming on the heels of a meeting
organised by the national working committee of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Abuja, which resulted in rezoning the party chairmanship position in
the state to Anambra North zone and obeying the court injunction which ruled
that the Chief Ifeatu Obiokoye-led executive of PDP remains the acting
executive of the party pending a substantive election.
Giving this indication while addressing
party members at government house, Awka, Ngige said that he was prepared to do
a celebration rally with his political foes.
Ngige further said that Obiokoye had
already pledged loyalty at Abuja but pleaded that he would be absent at the
meeting at government house in Awka because he needs to attend to some urgent
matters.
“Our house is big and we can
accommodate everybody. We don’t want to continue wallowing in self pity;
we need to move forward. Before, we thought that the entire executive was
involved in the July 10 abduction, but we later realised that only 10 per cent
were involved and we are ready to forgive those people, after all, they are all
members of the PDP and of Anambra origin, and I told them at the Abuja meeting
that to err is human and to forgive is divine.
