Your attack of Ngige futile, Anambra AC replies Soyinka
From NOSIKE OGBUENYI, Abuja

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Anambra State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has replied the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka over his assertion that former governor and AC governorship candidate for the February 6, 2010 election, Dr. Chris Ngige should not be celebrated as the liberator of Anambra State on account of the nullification of the 2003 election that brought him to power.

In a statement yesterday, the Anambra State Publicity Secretary of AC, Chief Chetanne Udoka dismissed Soyinka’s statement as futile. He said the state carries no weight “because of the simple fact that whatever popular acclaim and acceptance that Dr. Ngige enjoys is freely given by the people who still hold dear, his historic accomplishments that have formed a benchmark for the assessment of subsequent leaders of the state.”


The AC described Ngige as “a collective hero whose honest stewardship, unrivalled till this moment has completely dwarfed the so called flawed 2003 election.”


The Anambra AC further contended: “There is no doubt that Professor Soyinka occupies a prime position in the pantheon of Nigeria’s democratic struggle but his position on this matter is based on error of judgement.

“Good enough, the Nobel Laureate acknowledged the heroic role Dr. Ngige played to liberate Anambra State from the clutches of internal imperialists fully backed by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. It is therefore contradictory for him to turn round and insinuate that the rare honour which is attendant upon such feat should be denied him.”


The AC reminded Soyinka that if Dr. Ngige had agreed to play the ball ìto the whims of the axis of evil who determined the fate of men at the point in reference, “his election would not have been nullified.”

The party contended that the great majority of the people of Anambra have chosen Ngige as a hero because he bluntly refused evil, chose good and subsequently, hurt his personal political pursuit.


It argued that what happened in Anambra in 2003 was an act of God, adding that when God chooses to free a people, He might choose a design that may run contrary to human sense of legality. “Today, time and circumstances have not been able to annul the fact that in 2003, Dr. Chris Ngige committed class suicide when despite real lethal threats, powered by the federal establishment, he fearlessly fought elite conspirators to liberate the long suffering people of the state,” it stressed.


The AC further reminded Soyinka that without Ngige, Anambra and her people would have remained in perpetual vassalage to the dominion of greedy agents of internal colonialism. It further reminded the Nobel Laureate that Ngige’s record of achievements speaks for him and that it is only the people that determine whom their hero is.

The party said the people of Anambra State know who liberated them more than him (Soyinka).

Ngige should just go and sit down jor . . . .

I am with Soyinka

Ngige is a washed up election rigger