There are three
significant convictions that strike me whenever I see APGA Cock. First,
whenever I see APGA Cock, I am convinced that the party’s founders were
thoughtful. Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu could not have settled for a less
appropriate totem for the party, at least, because he was involved.
This was a man who fought to keep us alive when we were being
slaughtered like rams for no reason; I mean, when extinction stared us in the
face. This was a man who fought without gun, money, official title or any
strange paraphernalia for the Land of the Rising Sun. He hoped that this
nation, Biafra would rise with the sun. But, alas! When the sun of Biafra was
still low in the horizon, when it was still half and yellow, it set. It was
indeed a sunset at dawn. Now that the sun of Biafra has set at dawn, APGA represents
a new hope for Ndi Igbo in particular and Africa in general. The choice of a cock
as the party’s symbol is indeed to announce a new dawn for all. This is one of
the reasons APGA should be guarded jealously in Anambra State, her root and currently
her last turf. APGA is our voice in Nigeria. It is the hope of Ndi Igbo.
Secondly, whenever I see APGA Cock, I beat my chest like this and tell
myself, “Ozeh, you can still pass as a prophet.” I was surprised how Anambra,
one of the few states with the least revenue allocation from the Federal
Government could still defy the devastating recession in our economy, and waxed
stronger than states with higher revenue. Then, elsewhere, I was moved to write
that if Anambra is the Light of the Nation, then, Gov. Obiano is the sun. Before
it was long, news filtered in that Chief (Dr.) Willie Obiano has been awarded
the Sun Governor of the Year, 2015. It amounted to a prophecy confirmation.
But, I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet; the truth is that a
golden fish has no hiding place. Willie is working indeed.
Finally, whenever I see APGA Cock, it becomes glaring why evil men prefer
the party dead. The party just like the cock crow promises daylight for Ndi
Anambra. This is one development that the evil men, in their rapacious
squandermania of the public treasury do not wish to occur. Nocturnal men; they
prefer darkness and they also prefer keeping Ndi Anambra in perpetual darkness
but God forbid! The APGA government will continue to do what it knows best;
transforming Anambra State beyond imagination.
Ozeh Cornelius Chiedozie
Awka, Anambra State.
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