Abia youths want Ogah sworn-in as Governor
A group of youths from Abia State under the aegis of Supreme Igbo Youths Alliance (SIYA), last weekend, expressed dismay over the continued delay in the swearing in of Uche Ogah as the governor of the State.
The group at a meeting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, observed that the continued stalemate is creating tension capable of breaching the peace and security of the State.
National Secretary of the body, Mr. Onyekachi Ogbonna, who briefed journalists after the meeting, maintained that Ogah having been given a Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the authentic governor of the state, should be sworn in without further delay.
Onyekachi, a former National leader of the Ukwa-Ngwa Students Association, argued that the delay tactics employed by governor, Okezie Ikpeazu and his sympathisers is capable of truncating the electoral calendar of the state, adding that, “politics should not be a do or die affair.”
According to him, “since a Court of competent jurisdiction has ruled and continued to insist that Governor Ikpeazu was not eligible to have contested the 2015 governorship election, he should vacate the office and stop making a mockery of the judiciary by procuring black market injunctions to undermine the judgement.”
Adding that, “if you notice the way Abia people are rejoicing, you will know that the Court judgement that sacked Ikpeazu was a huge relief because his administration in the last one year has been clueless. So he should not create further uncertainty in Abia by refusing to vacate the office. Our advice is that he should toe the part of honour and allow the will of God to be done in Abia.”
They said, “we want to also seize this opportunity to advise our governor in the waiting not to allow the frenzy of the moment to becloud his proven sense of judgment, especially as it concerns his choice of who becomes his deputy because people are already warming up to reap where they did not sow. He should refer to those that stayed with in the course of the struggle to redeem his mandate instead of allowing this spur of the moment loyalists to have their way.”
