The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) National Chairman, Dr. Victor Oye, has lambasted the first son of the late Biafra leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Emeka Jnr, for betraying the interest of ndi Igbo by defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Describing him as “a prodigal son”, Oye, however, dismissed Emeka’s defection as inconsequential to the re-election of Governor Willie Obiano in tomorrow’s election.
Though he said Ojukwu Jnr has the right to belong to any party he desires, he expressed confidence that Emeka would still come back to his root where his father and himself started, “his root is APGA.”
It would be recalled that Emeka Jnr had on Wednesday said he joined the APC allegedly to protect the interest of the Igbo race.
The National Coordinator APGA Media Warriors Forum, Evangelist Chinedu Obigwe has also described Emeka Ojukwu jnr’s defection to APC as a good riddance to bad rubbish.
“His ill-advised and monetary induced actions pose no threat to Governor Obiano. The Governor will clinch a landslide victory at Nnewi, Ojukwu’s home town,” he finally said.
Disabled persons urged to vote in Anambra
The 27,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) registered to vote in Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State have been urged to go out and exercise their constitutional right, because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started to take steps to address some of the difficulties they encounter during the voting process.
The admonition was contained in a statement presented by the Executive Director, Inclusive Friends Association (IFA), a non-governmental organization, Mrs. Grace Jerry, at a roundtable with leaders of PWDs held in Awka, the Anambra State capital yesterday.
Jerry who is also the coordinator, Access Nigeria: Disability Votes Matter Campaign, said the polling unit accessibility audits conducted during the 2016 governorship elections in Edo and and Ondo states suggest that PWDs encounter difficulties in their attempts to exercise their franchise, because polling units are not structured to make it easy for them to vote.
She said the problems encountered by PWDs during elections are compounded by the unavailability of facilities such as braille or tactile ballots for those with visual or hearing impairments.
She added that INEC was not able to do something to assist such persons before now, because it did not have a record of the disability status of registered voters. She said about 400,000 persons are living with disability in the state, but only 27,000 of them are registered by INEC.
