- * Teams Up With Senator Andy Uba In His Guber Quest
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
Anambra state deputy governor, Nkem Okeke, has finally dumped his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on the platform of which he was deputy governor for almost years, for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
The campaign group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flag bearer, Senator Andy Uba, on Wednesday, welcomed the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Nkem Okeke into the APC fold.
Okeke joined the APC on Wednesday evening after being presented to President Muhammadu Buhari by Governor Mai Mala Buni, chairman of the APC's Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He was joined by Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state and chairman of the National Campaign Council for the Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign.
The Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organization (SAUGCO) in a statement by its Media and Publicity Director, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene said that "We heartily welcome our deputy governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke, an intellectual of no mean standing who has, over the years, striven to steer the ship of Anambra state from the parochialism and maladministration which his principal, Governor Willy Obiano, has foisted on the state.
"For several years, Dr. Okeke remained the only sane voice of reason in Government House, Awka, thus before long, he was easily sidelined by a Governor Obiano who elevated his wife to the status of co-Governor.
"For taking this patriotic step, in the face of daunting personal discomfort, this generation of Ndi Anambra, and indeed Anambra children yet unborn, would remember the name, Dr. Nkem Okeke, as one who rejected the accouterments of high office and elected to align with the people", Ogene stated. NNL.