Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano on Thursday explained the reasons behind his absence at the meeting of the South-East Governors’ Forum held in Enugu on Tuesday, saying he can’t dine with the sponsors of violence in his state.
Obiano was absent at the Tuesday meeting called to discuss the ranging insecurity across the South-East, even as he failed to send a representative.
His absence drew criticisms across the zone.
However, the governor through his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Chief Ifeatu Obiokoye said he couldn’t have been in the same space with ‘certain individuals’ who were allegedly behind the violence plaguing his state.
He said, “Did you really expect my governor would be meeting, and dining with some persons ostensibly funding and sponsoring insecurity and terrorism in Anambra State?
“What people are saying goes to no issue in the first instance because it is public knowledge that those doing the killings are not from Anambra State and no Anambra person would go to this extent.
“These people are from outside Anambra State and those sponsoring them are from outside Anambra State and you expect the governor to be holding meetings with them on security challenges which those people are executing?
“Be it known to all and sundry that the killings are politically motivated to create voter apathy in Anambra and then manipulate the electoral process to the advantage of these desperados’ ‘.
