What is the cause of the fight between Obi, Obiano and Umeh?
I was Commissioner for Information, Culture & Tourism in Anambra State before the Obiano enterprise. I was also the Director General of the Willie Obiano Campaign Organisation but knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, I found myself being given the position of a Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Matters after the election. Ordinarily, one should expect that if one is part of a project, one should aspire for a higher position.
The problem is simple, someone does not want to meet up the obligation for which he signed to become a governor. There is an obligation and it is simple, Obiano did not put one kobo into his election, I was the Director General, somebody else underwrote that money, that person is a billionaire in his own status and they agreed.
Willie said on the day he was contacted that he had no dime and Obi said, ‘just come and fill in the position, I am going to make you a governor but when you get to that position, you must remember that this money we will be spending is borrowed from people and myself’, to which he agreed.
Obi then went ahead and made him governor of the state without contributing one kobo. For the entire campaign, he didn’t put a kobo. The person that signed the money for the campaign was Dubem Obaze and Patrick Obi who was the secretary. I was the DG of his campaign organisation and I said I was not going to touch a dime.
I did every other thing but allowed other people to handle the financial aspect, and every kobo that was brought in for the campaign was signed by Obiano, but when he became the governor, it became obvious that he was not willing to pay the money and rather than pay the money, he started finding fault here and there. Obi has not spoken and he is not even interested in this thing I’m telling you now, he has not confronted him either.
That is the problem, paying back what was used for the election. Obi has not asked to be given commissioners or for his relations to be in government. Every appointment Obiano made from Agulu today, Obi was not consulted and the man has even gone his way.
The problem is paying back what was given into the election campaign. I am part of the government of Obiano so I know what the problem is. He first of all went looking for where Obi got the money for his election, that was his first assignment.
All the commissioners and parastatals were asked to go and find out where any money used for election came from and nobody could find any. I was a member of the State Executive Council and we told him that there was none.
I told him that we should meet so that I could tell him as an insider where the money came from, because I was aware in one instance that the NNPC House in Abuja belonged to NEXT Limited which is Obi’s company.
Obi sold that house for the election and the proceeds from the sale was domiciled in Fidelity Bank, Abuja and the branch manager then was Uzu who is now the Chief of Protocol to Obiano.
It was Uzu that transferred the money and it was used for the election. You don’t need to go far to find these things but the young man doesn’t want to sit down to be educated.
I know individuals who gave N500m, some N50m and I countersigned for Obi that the money must be refunded. Obi has been refunding those money borrowed for the past two years.
He has since settled those he borrowed from while some are still outstanding but he is taking care of it. Then, you talk of his own money that he invested. That is the problem and nobody would say it except me because I was at the centre of it all.
Joe Martins Uzodike was the Commissioner for Information and Tourism during former governor Peter Obi’s administration in Anambra State
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