Senator Ohuabunwa’s campaign council reacts to purported warning by Abia North monarchs
By Steve Oko
The Campaign Council of Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has reacted to a story of purported warning by Abia North monarchs against pasting of Ohuabunwa’s posters on projects attracted by another candidate.
In a tersed press statement by the Secretary of the Council, and former Chairman of Arochukwu Local Government Area, Hon. Princely Kingsley Ngunu, the Council claimed that those behind the “planted story feel threatened by Ohuabunwa’s swelling support across Abia North.”
The statement which dismissed the purported story as false and cheap propaganda, said Abia North monarchs never made the statement credited to them in the mischievous report.
Bellow is a full text of the report made available to Wawa News Global:
“The attention of the Campaign Council of the Most Distinguished Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has been drawn to a planted fictitious social media report about a purported warning by Abia North monarchs against Ohuabunwa pasting his campaign posters on projects and streetlight attracted by a certain senator that we don’t want to dignify by mentioning his name.
“According to the infantile, ridiculous and mischievous report, the purported monarchs’ warning was contained in a statement by one amorphous HRH Kalu Obasi who claimed that Senator Ohuabunwa’s action “is capable of causing civil unrest amongst party faithful and communities in Abia North, and thus disrupt the peace currently being enjoyed in the zone.”
“In as much as it’s not our intention to dignify the hungry and shameless peddlers of this fallacious report and their desperate paymaster, we, would however, want to remind the good people of Abia North that the forces holding the zone down are exploring all options to possibly stay afloat.
“In the first place, it is not to our knowledge that traditional rulers in Abia North under any guise met or authorized any press statement to be issued on their behalf against any action of Senator Ohuabunwa or his teeming supporters that is capable of causing any breach of the peace in the zone.
“Neither Senator Ohuabunwa nor his teeming supporters have taken any action capable of causing security breach in the zone in the course of his electioneering campaigns which have been peaceful. He is a peace lover and promoter, and will continue to go about his campaigns peacefully.
“Assuming but not conceding that the traditional rulers met or directed that any statement be made, their leadership is not in doubt and they have a channel of communication one of which is not via an unknown Kalu Obasi.
Ohuabunwa with Ugo Ezes of Bende at IgbereIt’s quite shameful that the so-called Kalu Obasi and his imaginary monarchs are purportedly endorsing a senator that has already been roundly rejected by the vast majority of Abia North for bringing shame and ridicule to the zone.
It’s only the likes of Kalu Obasi that know where the said streetlights and imaginary projects by their so-called performing senator are located. We are not surprised that obviously due to the prevailing economic hardship some characters without conscience can shamelessly do anything for a piece of bread.
“We are not also aware of any resolution by Abia North monarchs for Senator Ohuabunwa to step down for any other senatorial candidate in the forthcoming election. Rather, what we have seen is swelling support and continued endorsements of Ohuabunwa’s candidature by various stakeholders in Abia North including the traditional institution.
“Just recently, the entire traditional rulers in Bende LGA gathered at the palace of the Chairman of Council of Traditional Rulers, Bende LGA, HRM Eze Uwakwe Ukaegbu ( Ofufe lol of Amofufe Igbere Autonomous Community) where they decorated Senator Ohuabunwa ahead of the polls.
“It’s only the height of desperation and crass politics for any political opponent to be so desperate as to fabricate imaginary statements using the revered traditional institution.
“We know that those who are jittery over the growing anger across Abia North about poor representation and backwardness of the zone in the recent times, are the masterminds of the sponsored news report. It is only obvious to them that the people have finally risen to take back their stolen mandate and restore the voice and dignity of Abia North, hence their desperation. They know the shame and humiliation awaiting them at the poll.
“Abia North monarchs will certainly not be rooting for a Ruga promoter, ‘Villa sweeper’, comic relief maker and one who has abandoned the zone to its fate amid raging insecurity.
“Wise and erudite traditional rulers from Abia North couldn’t have endorsed darkness for light, or failure for Excellence. They are well informed and wise enough to communicate their position to their subjects and not through the laughable method claimed by Kalu Obasi and his paymaster. They should recast their poor script because it’s too lame to fly.”
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