Call your attack dogs to order, Ganduje’s assistant tells Soludo

After the people of Anambra State were urged to leave the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), there have been ongoing controversies. Chief Oliver Okpala, the APC national chairman’s senior special assistant on public education, questioned the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to control his “activists in politics.”.

In response to Ganduje’s call for the Anambra people and the entire region to join the ruling party to end the years of exclusion from the center, some APGA supporters became enraged and began attacking the APC national chairman during a recent colloquium hosted by the South East chapter of the party. Okpala responded to the criticism of his boss by calling out those who were criticizing Ganduje for the remark as impolite, misinformed political outcasts who needed to be called to order.

Okpala urged those who were offended by Ganduje’s call to instead value the APC leader’s efforts to assist Anambra and the South East in becoming more fully integrated into the political mainstream of the country.

He stated, “They must respect Dr. Ganduje’s gesture and not view his intervention negatively. His goal is for the political and economic advancement of Anambra state to advance into the national political arena, not the dark side currently being painted by the overly enthusiastic APGA attack dogs. The long-standing political regression, he emphasized, should worry every rational Igbo man.

He added, “Ganduje is not against Governor Soludo or any Anambra man for that matter, he even captioned his comments as the way forward for Anambra and the South East as a whole, as he also described the Anambra governor as his personal friend.

“So why these unnecessary attacks on his person, integrity, credibility, family and image by political charlatans in APGA?

“Governor Soludo should call these misguided boys to order and advise them on how not to address an elder. He should caution these mad political dogs who lack a sense of decorum,” Okpala said.