Anambra State youth wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in a statement condemned what it described as “frantic efforts to consolidate fraud” by winner of the party’s governorship primaries, Hon Tony Nwoye.
The statement reads, “As concerned youths of the All Progressive Congress, APC, it has come to our notice the recent desperate effort by Tony Nwoye who has taken to both the traditional and the social media to spew lies and justify impunity.
“We are not surprised by his present mendacity because he is really finding it difficult to import his well known PDP impunity into the APC. Therefore, he has resorted to building castles of lies and provocations by using the names of highly placed and respectable people as the foundation for this tragic adventure.
“He is unscrupulously using the names of decent people to enlarge the frontiers of fraud, which will never be allowed to stand in an idealist party as APC, where CHANGE from evil to good, is not just a mantra but a way of life.
“We have noted with rapt attention the desperate efforts to drag the good names of influential people like His Excellency, Sen. Jim Nwobodo and Prince Donatus Okonkwo into his doomed project of consolidating fraud. We forbid ourselves to reduce the towering personalities of these great men to the obnoxious level of Nwoye’s misadventures.
We call the attention to the major reason behind this high media traffic. Initially, it was conceived to intimidate and blackmail members of the APC Appeal Committee. Having failed in that regard as the Committee has submitted its report, Tony Nwoye’s latest gimmick is to conjure every manner of falsehood against members of APC’s National Working Committee, in the attempt to blackmail and manipulate them.
However, we enjoin all APC members in Anambra state to remain calm and hold no anger against any of the personalities touted by Nwoye’s group in their sponsored publications. The group is merely appending innocent names to their falsehood.
We assure everyone that we are now in APC and in this great party, things are done differently, with recourse to the rule of law and justice. It is shocking to find out that nothing is sacred to Tony Nwoye, not even accusing the NWC members of collecting 150 million Naira bribe. But we ask; who gave the bribe and who collected it? He won’t give names because there are no names. The master fabricator is doing what he does best, which is fabricating falsehood with alarming speed.
It is highly demeaning to malign the integrity of respectable men and women, just in the pursuit of vaulting ambitions. How far can Tony Nwoye go to consolidate an open fraud? How far would he go to tarnish the reputation of respectable people just because of ambition? Does he consider his ambition to govern Anambra state, by all means, more important than the integrity of APC and its members?. Time will tell.”
