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Nzeribe tackles Udenwa
By CHINELO AGINA
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Senator
Arthur Nzeribe
•Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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Senator Arthur Nzeribe has lashed out at the Minister of Commerce
and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa, accusing him of “fanning
the embers of disharmony” in Imo State and the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
Making this assertion in a statement released to the press, Senator
Nzeribe lampooned Chief Udenwa, saying that the former governor
was responsible for sowing seeds of discord among members of the
state chapter of the party and as such was not fit to occupy the
position, which he currently holds.
His words: “when some of the Imo political leaders visited
President Umaru Yar’adua, we had a catalogue of demands, which
we took and read before the President. Prominent among them is the
attitude of some of our so-called political leaders. We pointed
to the attitude of Chief Udenwa, telling the President that this
Minister was fanning the embers of discord in the State and the
party to which the President belongs.”
“One of the instances we cited was that Udenwa had the effrontery
to use fronts to challenge the President over the dissolution of
the former state executive committee of the PDP and the installation
of a caretaker committee of which the event was presided over by
the President himself. The next day, a few elements from among the
dissolved executive went to a High Court to challenge the dissolution
and, in effect, the action of the President.”
Speaking further, he told President Yar’adua to admonish his
Ministers from using the privilege of their high offices to perpetrate
acts of injustice among their people, saying that the State boasts
of intellectuals who can be appointed to the Federal cabinet and
still comport themselves properly in the interest of the people.
He averred that among the many ‘sins’ of Chief Udenwa
was the latter’s outbursts in some national dailies where
he (Udenwa) put up advertorials through his proxies, deriding members
of the delegation who had indirectly asked the sack of the Minister
on the basis of what they described as his incompetence.
“I would not blame those who read the things we said to the
President as meaning a call for Udenwa’s sack. From the word
go, I had said that we should have been more vehement in telling
President Yar’adua that the likes of Udenwa have no business
in his administration, but being as obtuse as ever, he would not
allow a matter that brought him to public ridicule die down. Whether
the delegation was right or wrong, the fact that such a complaint
about him was made in the first place should have kept him thinking.”
“Here is a man who could not on his own work out an orderly
succession after his eight year reign. Providence came in and through
the efforts of others; Imo was saved the headache of his abysmal
failure. Instead of work towards restoring peace and harmony in
a state he had the privilege of ruling for eight years decided to
resort to fanning the embers of discord,” Nzeribe stressed.
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