APGA candidate in the last governorship polls in Abia state Reagan Ufomba’s woes keep increasing daily with the recent revelation by a prominent indigene of Ngwa, Chief Chukwu Wachukwu, that Ufomba is stranger element in Ngwa land.
Chief Wachukwu, who is the president of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Association of Nigeria told the Jurist laws exclusively that Reagan Ufomba is not an Abian.
According to him, Ufomba whose stock in trade is deceit is from Ogoni in Rivers state. Speaking further, Chief Wachukwu stated that the APGA candidate’s father settled in Ngwa land many years before the Nigerian civil war as he was housed by Reagan’s mother. Reagan is a product of an illicit affair which the mother had with the Ogoni man who was a palm wine tapper in her village.
With the war over, according to Chief Wachukwu Reagan settled in Ngwa land where he grew up as a bastard.
Till date Reagan is not accepted in Ngwa land no matter how hard he tries Chief Wachukwu added.
He warned Reagan to go to Ogoni land and re-unite with his kith and kin rather than claiming indigene ship in Abia state.
When Jurist laws contacted Reagan on the issue he simply said he is a Nigerian and he is free to settle any place he wants. He further gave out himself when he hinted that some elders in the community during the polls started carrying rumours that he comes from Ogoni. “Even if I’m from Ogoni so what” Reagan retorted.
It's a shame that any Nigerian should be critiqued for how they were born and/or their place of birth (factors they have no control over), rather than on what they have achieved legitimately, their ambition for their fellow citizens and what they can offer to the Republic, whose people are desirous of good and accountable governance with the attendant benefits that should accure to them! We're long past wanting a leader from a particular area or birth.
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