Massob congratulates Apga in Anambra South Senatorial District for not selecting Bianca as its candidate

SECESSIONIST group the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has thanked All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga) delegates from Anambra South Senatorial District for not selecting Bianca Ojukwu as their candidate.

Bianca, 51, the widow of Apga founder Chief Emeka Ojukwu, was once Miss Nigeria and has served as Nigeria's ambassador to both Spain and Ghana. On Thursday, she lost her bid to become the Apga senatorial candidate in the Anambra South Senatorial District where her late husband comes from, after losing in the party's primary elections.

Since she announced her decision to run, here have been objections to Bianca's candidacy, including from Ojukwu's children who opposed her saying it would not be proper to allow a woman from Ngwo, in Enugu State, to represent Anambra South Senatorial District. After the vote on Thursday, Bianca was beaten by Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, losing by 177 votes to his 211, bringing about an end to her senatorial ambitions.

Comrade Edeson Samuel, Massob's national director of information, said some disgruntled and self-centred persons pressurised Bianca to run because they wanted to use her political position to enrich and draw an unmerited attention to themselves. He added that it was a good thing she lost as nobody will now be able to denigrate her in the senate.

Comrade Samuel said: “Though she is loved, honoured and acknowledged by Ndigbo as the wife of Eze Igbo Gburugburu, still Massob can never allow Iyom Bianca Ojukwu to be rubbished or mesmerised by Hausa-Fulani people in the red chamber of National Assembly. Massob warned that the leadership of Apga should not be blamed or castigated because of the failure of Iyom Bianca Ojukwu.

"She failed because she disobeyed her husband and our ancestors who have seen the mesmerisation she will encounter in the red chamber of the National Assembly. Her failure is a divine act."