Correction 2017 fever: Deputy Governor Nkem Okeke, to be dropped.
APGA Interactive Forum has gathered that Obiano is on a serious consultation on how to drop his Deputy, Dr Nkem Okeke after he must have picked APGA ticket in 2017 and nominate someone from Anambra South as his new deputy.
Obiano wants to sacrifice Dr Nkem Okeke and nominate someone from South in order to placate the Anambra South stakeholders who have alleged that Obiano abandoned the senatorial zone and are set to vote against him at the poll.
Those who advised Obiano to drop Nkem Okeke and go South, This Forum learnt reminded him that part the reason GEJ lost was because he refused to drop Namadi Sambo as advised by OBJ and pick a more grassroot politician from the north.
They reminded Obiano that Ngige, Obi, Ekwunife and other stakeholders in Anambra central will run Umeh who is his major backer from the zone out as Nkem Okeke has no electoral value. They therefore suggested to Obiano to think south and pick someone who can return block votes from the zone.
This Forum discovered that due to this plan, the office of the Deputy Governor is being starved of fund. It was shocking when our reporter at Agu Awka informed us that the Deputy Governor's office receives less than 5 million naira monthly to run his office while the governor takes a whopping sum of 1 billion naira monthly under the guise of security vote.
He was being starved of fund to ensure that he has no financial muscle to fight back whenever he is dropped.
Meanwhile, in a related development, APGA Interactive Forum learnt that the Deputy Governor is being careful especially with his SA political, Dr Elo Afoka who was planted in his office to spy him. A source close to the deputy revealed to us that during the "stone Peter Obi" saga, that the Deputy Governor was so unhappy with Elo Afoka that he wanted the governor to sanction him and redeploy him from his office, but was shocked when the office of the governor kept mute on the face of that condemnable statement from his aide.
Dr Nkem Okeke has been a loyal Deputy, his home town Enugwu Ukwu has not benefitted anything from this administration. The same way his office is neglected is the same way his home town has no govt presence. Worst still, the Deputy has no plan B, he only resigned to fate.
Credit: Victor Chigozie