Gov Obiano Tells Southeast Governors To Join APGA

Obiano advises Southeast counterparts to defect to APGA.

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has urged his South-east counterparts to join his party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) ahead of the 2019 general elections.

He said this on Thursday at a campaign rally held at Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, the State capital, for the party’s candidate, Victor Umeh, for the Anambra Central Senatorial District rerun election scheduled for January 13.

Obiano, who was re-elected on the platform of the party on November 18, 2017, described APGA as the “South-East hurricane”, asking other governors in the zone to defect to the party to ensure their victory as the party is confident of winning the other four states in the South-east in 2019.

“What happened here on November 18 when APGA swept the entire poll in Anambra State will be replicated in Imo, Abia, Enugu, and Ebonyi states in 2019.

“APGA is a hurricane that nobody can stop in the South-east. What I am telling my brother governors in the South-east is for them to join APGA now if they wish to be re-elected; otherwise, sorry for them, they must lose their seats to APGA in 2019,” he said.

He added, “What we are telling everybody now is to join APGA within a reasonable time to be able to get the chance to contest election on our platform in 2019.”

He said as chairman of Umeh’s senatorial campaign organization, he had already devised strategies to “crush any opposition” in the January 13 senatorial rerun.