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 o...
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