On their effort, they got several court judgement to compel the state government to swear them in but they insisted because Oye has refused to show interest in the case even after several visits by the State chairman to brief him about the situation.
If this should happen during the reign of Umeh/Shinkafi, they would have engaged the Niger state government till they releases APGAs mandate.
Then in Gwagwalada, Obama won the election through his popularity and not any of Oye’s effort. Oye only came in when the election was halted and he found out that Obama was leading.
The victory of Obama in Gwagwalada is without litigations because of the way and matter Oye handled the primaries.
That election further exposes Oye’s incompetence in which he gave nomination to 2 candidates. Saidu is now in court claiming he is the rightful candidate of APGA.
It was also discovered that Oye collects percentage from candidates he takes to Gov Obiano for support during elections.
SACRIFICES FOR APGA
It is on record that sir Victor Umeh sacrificed almost all he worked for to ensure APGA remains in existence. He sold his properties, risked his life and deprived his family to invest on the project, APGA.
As the NYL, I have traveled to over 15 states organizing seminars, workshops and talking to youths about APGA.
The records are there with no funding from anywhere but he was always willing to sacrifice for the growth of APGA. All we get is discouragement with the activities of Oye.
You won’t believe that as the NYL, I don’t have an office space at the national secretariat to do my work and receive my numerous visitors. Am being forced to receive my visitors in gardens and Hotels.
I also do not have a vehicle attached to the office of the National Youth Leader to convey youths to programs. I have to use my personal money to cover expenses incurred while taking our youths to functions in the past 17 months.
I can tell you that there was a certain incident where I was receiving my visitors in the office of a secretariat staff and he came in and asked me to and my guests to leave his office that he is going out. I complained to Oye and H. E Labaran Maku but they never addressed the issue.
A secretariat staff should not occupy an office while a national office begs for a space to do his work.
Also the bus that was supposed to be parked at the national secretariat for official use is permanently parked at Maku’s residence which I was instructed to write an application before it will be released to me to take youths to functions and in most cases it won’t be even released and I will still be made to transport our youths to functions.
It even got to a stage where I was asked to write to inform the secretariat of the coming of my visitor so that they will be scrutinized. What a way to treat the national officer of our party. I have been badly hurt by Oye without provocation.
In the last NWC, he sent his thugs to stop me from entering the national secretariat and I was beaten up when I tried to force myself into the secretariat. This situation has never been addressed anywhere till date.
I have written countless memos which I have there records on ways to move APGA forward but non have ever been discoursed in any APGA meeting.
In all my encounter with Oye, I found out that he is a “food is ready “politician who does not believe in building but will rather sit on someone else success and destroy them not able to build any.
My 1st advice to him was to call for the appraisal of the 2015 elections to give him direction.
– To access the performance of APGA, to know what went wrong and how to correct them,
– to know what our strength and weaknesses are and,
– to work on our weaknesses to prepare the party for subsequent elections.
But he is not interested in such suggestions because he felt that he cannot make money from such exercise. He washes everybody that comes his way and tell of the revelations he had on the elections that have been conducted under his watch.
You all will not be told how the elections have all gone. He is a prophet of doom and should not be trusted.
In July this year, Oye squandered #25m of APGAs money to take a chieftaincy title. A month later, he wasted #15m of still APGAs Money for his wife’s title while APGA suffers.
Umeh never indulged in such wasteful venture when he was N. C. His watch word was sacrifice for APGA. Oye inherited a healthy APGA but left it very sick.
These millions he spent on titles is enough to secure functional party offices in the 36 states + FCT and furnish them. APGA’s account has never been audited under OYE.
He spends APGA’s fund at will because he keeps the cheque book. No account officer in NWC can tell what APGA’s account was like under Oye.
At a time, the office of the national chairman was reduced to the office of a glorified Babi Allah (glorified beggar) where he goes about begging for money for Kola nut and promising people nomination for 2019.
One particular incident happened in Gwagwalada when he visited then he asked his audience to start bringing money for Kola nut and they started donating money as low as #200 just like church offering to Oye which he eventually packed and put in his pocket.
What a disgrace Oye has brought to APGA.
MY OFFENCES
-Speaking out each time he wants to exhibit his anti-youth agenda
-Memos from the office of the national youth leader
-Always telling him the truth even when finds it bitter
-Because am a youth and he doesn’t want my voice to be heard
-He hates people that work hard that will bring reasonable change to APGA
-He doesn’t like it when he feels you know more and can deliver the goods
-my advices to him to be transparent
DISRESPECT FOR NWC MEMBERS
Oye has no respect for his colleagues in NWC. He has consistently called them charlatans, rebels, never do well and all sorts of unprintable names at different fora. He hijacked all their duties and never consulted them on anything concerning the party.
One will ask: why is it that no organ in APGA is independent or functioning and can act on its own. He (Oye) does the work of everybody even wrongly. When he gets to Amawbia, he entertains issues from wards thereby bypassing the ward chairman.
So he does in issues of LGA, states and even in issues of women and Youths .for example, when he went to Orumba North and chose a leader against the wishes of the people thereby creating crisis where there was none.
He became such a tyrant that as a member of NWC, you have to fill a form before you can see Oye in office which once happened to me and I was later told that I can’t see him cos he was busy.
He has also empowered a secretariat staff to do the work of NWC members by sending him to represent the party in IPAC meetings which is exclusive for NWC members in every political party.
He also instructed him to collect cash from aspirants who want to purchase nomination forms which are against our party’s constitution.
Oye wants to destroy APGA and frustrate Gov Obiano’s RE-ELECTION but I for one with never allow him to do that. I will do everything within my power to protect APGA and Gov Obiano from Oye’s wicked plots.
Deacon Olalere who is on the payroll of Oyo state government and also doubled as one of Oye’s S.A whom is equally known as a professional praise-singer and a sycophant who is in the habit of telling a leader what he wants to hear just to get peanuts will always tell Oye that all is well when things have gone really bad.
Deacon Olalere led a kangaroo primary in Ondo where he reported to the NWC that the person who actually won the gubernatorial primaries did not purchase APGAs nomination form and he is not an APGA member but the said person (Sam Adegbite) eventually won the primaries organized by Olalere.
The question now is, who screened the said aspirants before those primaries?
Who authorised that primaries and who gave them waivers to be eligible to stand for that primary?
These and many more questions are begging for answers. Oye and his co-travellers have made APGA a laughing stock.
Oye is a big mistake to APGA and must be stopped before he causes more deliberate damage to our party.
WHERE ARE OUR ELDERS?
This is the time more than ever where the elders of our party should come out and speak to save our dear party from destruction. The electoral fortunes of APGA under OYE have dwindled.
It is clear for everybody to see and urgent surgical operation must be carried out to save our beloved party. An elder do not stay in the house and the goat dies in child birth.
ADVICE TO OUR AMIABLE LEADER, H. E GOV WILLIE OBIANO
Gov OBIANO remains a role model to the teeming youths of our dear party. I made this assertion because of the following reasons:
1. His appointment of a youth, Mark Okoye in his cabinet as a commissioner.
2. The creation of Anambra state road maintenance agency and gave the instruction that only youths should be employed into the agency which he kept and hundreds of youths benefited across the 3 senatorial zones in the state.
3. For training and empowering hundreds of youths in vocational skill acquisition programs. These and many more youth-friendly dispositions formed the basis of my support and appreciation to H. E Gov Obiano even without having a personal relationship with him.
Gov Obiano should as the party’s leader station his trusted men in every organ of the party that will not dilute the truth while reporting back to him.
He should look critically into the allegations against Oye and why Oye decided to scuttle the successful reconciliation he (Gov Obiano) initiated by calling his colleagues rebels to be chastised 48hrs after. H. E Gov Obiano should be contacting with the aggrieved members directly and not through political contractors who will not present the real situation.
Again, H.E. should make out time to be meeting regularly with the elders/leaders of the party to avoid room for unnecessary crisis and bickering. The ultimate goal is to return Gov Obiano come 2018 and it must be achieved.
On a final note, I wish to remind us that political party movement is all about meeting, meeting and meeting. Strategizing, and restrategizing. Scheming, planning, positioning, etc.
Any political party that fails to do the above begins to dies. All these were lacking under Oye. You cannot run a political party without meeting.
Again, Oye was validly suspended and his suspension subsists. He committed worse offences than Chekwas. He unilaterally suspended some state chairmen which still stood by his judgement. His suspension will not be different.
Let me also draw our attention to articles 22(2)(D and I) and articles 20(4). He has also created crisis in virtually are the states and unable to resolve them.
The truth is bitter and I will never stop saying it no matter who feels injured. I will always be prepared to defend everything I stated here with facts to prove them as long as it will correct the damages done by Oye to our beloved party.
I will have to stop here now. My next article will be tagged “the damages Oye have done to APGA”.
This is the truth and nothing but the truth. H. E Gov Willie Obiano and APGA must be saved from Oye’s evil plots.
Comrade Chuks Nwoga
APGA National Youth Leader
Courtesy: Eneh Victor Chigozie
