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The national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Oye, has said that a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, cannot achieve anything politically unless he returns to the party.
Obi, who emerged as Anambra State governor in 2006 and spent two terms in office, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 2014. He was the Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election.
Speaking on the defection and how APGA was able to win the Anambra State governorship election on Arise TV, on Wednesday, Oye vowed never to leave the party till death do them apart.
The APGA national chairman noted that Obi has not achieved anything politically since he defected because of the covenant he made with the party, adding that for Obi to achieve anything politically, he will have to return to APGA.
He said: “Remember that Peter Obi was in APGA and when he was with APGA, he performed superlatively well. The moment he left APGA, the APGA spirit left him. He has never achieved anything politically ever since. If he wants to achieve anything politically, he should come back to APGA; then, we will now re-ignite the APGA spirit in him.
“That is how it is done. Let me tell you, let him continue to jump from pillar to post, he cannot achieve anything because APGA gave him a platform and he took a vow that he will never leave APGA until death does them part. Now he left APGA; what do you expect would happen when you take a vow? A vow is a covenant and you must keep it. That is what is happening here.”
Oye, however, noted that the party is not into occultism.
“I did not mean a cult orientation when I said that Peter Obi vowed never to leave APGA till death do them part. What I said was an open thing and there is a video to that effect. For me, I believe in covenant. He made a covenant with God and not with APGA; is APGA God? He said he will never leave APGA until death does them part. That was what he said, it is open, I have the video.
“I am a Christian and I don’t have any business with cults; I don’t believe in that. My God is sufficient for me. What my God cannot do for me does not exist. In fact, what God cannot do for me, let it be. I am very proud of the God I serve,” he added.