Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, (APGA), in Abia State, Prof. Gregory Ibe, has denied signing any deal to be paying N2.2 billion monthly returns to the leadership of the party if elected Governor in 2023.
Factional governorship candidate of the party, Chief Chikwe Udensi, had claimed that he refused to sign the N2.2b monthly deal for the party’s governorship ticket, but alleged that Prof. Ibe signed the agreement to be paying the monthly returns with the leadership of APGA in the state.
Udensi also alleged that Ibe also agreed to other terms which included an agreement to accept the Member representing Aba South state constituency,Hon.Obinna Ichita,as the party’s running mate in the 2023 election. Ichita was last week nominated as the party’s deputy governorship candidate,an action which Udensi said, has vindicated him.
Ibe, who is the chancellor of Gregory University, in a press release, urged the public to disregard Udensi’s claims and described it as a malicious propaganda meant to incite voters against him.
He said; “Our attention has been drawn to a false and misleading online publication, unfortunately credited to Chief Chikwe Udensi, having as caption, “N2.2 billion monthly settlement of APGA Leadership with Abia Money: Emergence of Ichita vindicates Chikwe Udensi”, through which the promoter deliberately deployed canard and mendacity to attempt to denigrate and disparage the person of Prof Gregory Ibe, the Abia state candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for 2023 general elections and sought to generously award some modicum of validity to his dwindling political profile.
“That contrary to the deluding information contained in false publication, Prof. Ibe didn’t enter into any form of agreement, neither before, during or after the said election, to remit the sum of N2.2b monthly to the leadership of APGA
“That this apparently baseless, libelous and malicious accusation is at best a figment of the warped imagination of the anonymous author of the article.
“That Prof. Ibe’s motive in offering himself for the job of Abia state Governor is to volunteer quality service aimed at transforming the state, leveraging his vast experience as a globally acclaimed technocrat, human capital resource expert, international development consultant and renowned academic, and not to indulge in the ignoble act of ‘sharing’ state funds.
“That Chief Chikwe Udensi, who is a BOT member of APGA should show leadership and desist from acts reminiscent of the callousness displayed by the wicked mother in the bible, who desired King Solomon to deploy the sword in dividing her neighbour’s living child into two parts, just because she lost hers in the course of the night, out of her own careless disposition.”
