Politics
Uwazuruike Endorses Bianca For Senate
Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Founder of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has endorsed Mrs Bianca Ojukwu’s bid to contest the Anambra South Senatorial election in 2019.
Uwazuruike endorsed Bianca’s aspiration when Bianca, wife of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Dr Godwin Maduka, billionaire US-based Nigerian surgeon, visited Ojukwu Memorial Library Owerri on Sunday.
He said that he supports Bianca because her late husband meant everything to the identity of the Igbo people and was his bosom friend and mentor, who struggled for the emancipation of Ndigbo.
Uwazuruike, who also doubles as the leader of Biafra Independence Movement, said that though he was not from Anambra Senatorial District, but that he would deplore tools available to him to ensure Bianca emerged victorious.
“Bianca already has the backing of more than 15 Igbo billionaires for her 2019 senatorial project, and I make bold to say that she has my full support and we call on Anambra people to look back on our history and support her,’’ Uwazuruike appealed.
Mrs Ojukwu had recently declared to vie for the senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), a party which her late husband founded in 2003.
Mrs Ojukwu told newsmen that she commended Uwazuruike’s zeal and interest in engraving the name of her husband and Ndigbo in the sands of time.
“When Uwazuruike started this Ojukwu Memorial Library project after the death of my husband, it was like a bourgeois dream, but the project today is almost completed,’’ she said.
Although Bianca said that her visit to the project site had no significance to her political ambition, she however, described her visit as “home coming”.
Newsmen report that the Ojukwu Memorial Library complex has 2,000 capacity auditorium and E-library which on completion would serve as meeting place for discussion on Igbo historical heritage and issues affecting them.
Also, Maduka, who described the auditorium as “magnificent”, expressed delight on the thoughtfulness of Uwazuruike on the library and conference centre.
“I am indeed happy to see this kind of magnificent structure that could be likened to aesthetic buildings in the Netherlands, I will certainly identify with the initiator of this project in seeing to its completion.
“I must add that doing this is to demonstrate that I am a core Igbo man and I feel any privileged son or daughter of Igbo nation should show interest in this project that represents our history and unity,’’ he said.
Maduka, the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Centre, Nevada, U.S. criticised what he called the continued marginalisation of a section of the country in favour of others.
He said that the beauty of Nigeria was the unity of all segments, and urged the leaders to kick against tribalism and nepotism to take the country to the next level.
Newsmen also report that Maduka, who recently commenced construction of police academy at his Umuchukwu country home had completed a 16-storey skyscraper Medical Research Centre at Umuchukwu community in Orumba South Local Government, Anambra State.
He equally built and handed over High Court and Magistrates’ Court complex as well as involved in litany of developmental projects in a bid to turn his obscure community to a centre of medical destination in Nigeria and entire African continent.
NAN
Dr. Peter Ejirika, CPA
September 10, 2018 at 12:00 am
BIANCA OJUKWU’S POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS AND THE HOUSE OF OJUKWU
It is apparently disgusting to observe that the House of Ojukwu has developed a culture of acrimony in spite of the magnanimity of the Ojukwu’s Estate. It is worth noting that the Patriarch Ojukwu was metaphorically, a fraction of a whole that was greater than a whole, in that at a time, when Nigeria couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce Car he was gracious to loan his to Nigeria that way the visiting Princess Alexandra had means of transportation while she was in Nigeria. But the present generation of the Ojukwus are literally from Mars while the patriarch was from Jupiter. However, it needs to be made known to the present generation of the Ojukwu’s that the name Ojukwu carries some air of decorum, civility, and professional integrity that needs to be adored and maintained in all human transactions. Invariably, a law suit would have been brought against the present generation of the Ojukwus by certain members of a Professional Cadre of the Civilized World who served Biafra as Military Officers though they were Teenagers. The only reason for avoiding this extreme measure, at this time, is the belief that the independence of the Judiciary under Buhari’s administration is highly questionable.
However, the question one of the Ojukwus raised regarding the constitutionality of having Bianca Ojukwu contest an election in the Political Subdivision of her late husband, General Emeka Ojukwu is far reaching and has broad based ramifications regardless of whether one adopts a narrow or broader construction of the term “citizenship”. In actuality, the Ojukwu Junior is questioning the constitutionality of conferring on a married woman, for a marriage that was contracted in good faith the rights and privileges of the citizenship of the husband. It is abundantly clear that the House of Ojukwu has a college of Attorneys so the question is why didn’t one of these Attorneys interpret the laws of Citizenship to Ojukwu Junior? The only reason is the prevalence of acrimony in the House of Ojukwu that is debarring the cordial resolution of such conflicts. So, if the legislature of Anambra State holds the view that Bianca is ineligible to contest an election in the Political Subdivision of her late husband, it then behooves the legislature to apply the same standards to all married women who are contesting or has contested or will contest an election in the political subdivision of their husband. In which case, Ojukwu junior could be said to have let loose a cancer worm that no one knows the extent such a worm will travel and the extent of its damage. To this end, the retired underage officers of the Biafran Military want the House of Ojukwu to understand that every Biafran has a futuristic interest in the name Ojukwu, the peoples’ general of the Biafran Military as such all should respect the aspirations of Bianca though we don’t approve of the participation of Biafrans in the politics of Nigeria.
Dr. Peter Ejirika, CPA
Scholarly Practitioner
Montgomery, West Virginia
Pilot Officer Biafran Air Force. Umumasi, Port Harcourt