Mr. Valentine
Obienyem, the Senior
Special Assistant to Anambra State Governor, on Media and Publicity, has
appealed to the former National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, to mind
his business and stop bringing him into a controversy he knows nothing about.
Obienyem was reacting to the allegation by Chief Victor Umeh that he was
the source of the story accusing him of wishing that the Arik plane
carrying Obi, which ran into troubled weather on Tuesday, crashed as a
means by which God would teach politicians the transient nature of
earthly powers.
Obienyem described as beyond explanation, the
linking of his name to the story, more so, when, according to him,
an online publication that broke the news did not hide their identity.
“I do not know the origin of the news nor do I
know the publisher of the paper to ascribe it to me. I recall that the
publisher, perhaps an expert in investigative journalism, got my number from
sources I do not know and he called me repeatedly to confirm the news. When I
could not pick, he sent a text message to me, which I have not deleted from my
phone, bringing my attention to the news and seeking my reaction. I
replied him that I had not seen nor read about the news and that I believe
Chief Victor Umeh would not make such a statement even when it is not beyond
him to nurse such a wish. He insisted on the credibility of his source and I
merely appealed to him to leave me out of the saga,” Obienyem said.
Describing Umeh’s statement as “unfortunate,”
Obienyem said that Umeh’s life lately had shown the dangers inherent among
those that see politics as an occupation rather than a vocation, insisting that
the dead wish, which those present had confirmed as truth, shows Umeh as one of
those who can do anything for the sake of politics.
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