LIKE OLIVER TWIST...ANDY UBA SWALLOWS HIS VOMIT, JOINS THE APC
In the annals and cutthroat world of Nigerian politics, the successful politicians have always passed off as ‘made-men’ or the Nigerian version of Italian gang-lords; the unsuccessful ones however, always pass of as lesser gangsters - disposable muscles at the bottom of the totem pole of the country’s political class. More often than not, the latter manifests on the political circuit like 50-cent prostitutes, or N50 commercial sex workers, if you like, jumping from one political party to the other, in desperate pursuit of the next plum political office or deal.
Senator Andy Uba and serial gubernatorial candidate, emerges as Anambra’s most pitiful politician. Like a starved greyhound, Andy has swallowed his own vomit. He has gobbled up his bile like a sumptuous dish; as you read, he has recanted his scathing denunciation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to suffocate the party in a crushing embrace. Uba, representing Anambra South Senatorial zone on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has defected to the APC.
Uba disclosed this at a news briefing on Wednesday in his home country, Uga, Aguata Local Government Area of the state. The lawmaker said he joined the APC at the ongoing registration of party members in the state.
According to him, APC has ideology and focus which he needed to tap into to provide quality representation to his constituents. Uba further said that he joined the APC because of other personalities in the party with sound ideas and whom he looked up to in politics. We believe him. After all, the gubernatorial election is around the corner.