Sir Augustine Ike-Ikedoji The Candidate for The House of Assembly for the Young Progressives Party ( YPP) to represent Nnewi North in Anambra State,Sir Augustine Onyekachukwu Ike-Ikedoji has narrated how he narrowly missed being counted among the dead during the gruesome attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy recently.
According to him, he was part of the convoy, but providence played a fast one on him. In his words: “”All of us were in the convoy and it could have been anybody. I just left them not up to 20 minutes ago and it happened. All of us were there,if they had waited for us at Ozubulu when we were going,they would have gotten all of us.
It was just the timing that made some of us escape. So,at the end of the day,it was everybody’s death that they died.””. Sir Ike-Ikedoji who spoke to *Don Peter Okoro* at the funeral ceremony of Hon. Charles Nwoye’s father’s, stated that he is actually supposed to be receiving condolence message too because he was very close to the late man.
He said: “”He was like a father to me, because I’m always here when he was alive. Not up to a year ago,I went to Aba to see him. I’m feeling very bad, but the fact is that he lived a good life and died at a very ripe age.
God has already granted him eternal rest and he will continue to pray for us now, so that we will reach and possibly go beyond his years on earth.””. On his message to the people of Nnewi as they go into the elections, he replied that for now, they of the YPP Family are still in a mourning mood having lost four of their own in the dastardly attack and that they would use the whole of October to bury the deceased and have a short break before looking in the direction of campaign maybe from November.
Nevertheless, his message to his people is that: “”We should present ourselves to the people in order for them to assess us and they cannot assess us with those who are not contesting. You must have shown us what you have been doing for the people. We don’t use the House of Assembly for Test Run.
It has to be somebody who knows what to do, how to do it and has the requisite experience. I was an Appointee of the National Assembly Commission. I know how Legislation works. It’s about presenting yourself and your pedigree for the people to assess. I’m coming to this election with full force. I’m going to contest as if I’m contesting with the best person in the world, because I want to win .””
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